Mumbai Police on Monday arrested suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani from Gujarat, days after his daughter Aniksha Jaisinghani was arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail and bribe Amruta Fadnavis wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, NDTV reported.
A crime branch official confirmed that Anil Jaisinghani, who has 14 to 15 cases pending against him, was arrested from Gujarat but refused to divulge details.
Mumbai Police had on March 16 arrested Aniksha Anil Jaisinghani, a designer, after Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Amruta accused her of offering a bribe for intervening in a criminal case and also threatening her.
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