Pujari calls: Builders given security

Ahmedabad: Security cover has been pro vided to the three builders who received extortion calls from underworld don Ravi Pujari. Crime branch, which is probing the three extortion complaints, is scrutinizing VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls made by the gangsters, to around15 people, most of whom are from Gujarat.
“A few are from Delhi and Maharashtra.We suspect Pujari may have called them to for extortion too,“ said a crime branch official.
Builder Paresh Patel was the first to lodge a complaint against Pujari, when he got several calls from the gangster, demanding protection money .Fifteen days after Patel lodged a complaint, Arvind Patel of Anand lodged a complaint about threatening calls from Pujari, who demanded he pay Rs 25 crore as protection money .
“Patel provided audio recordings of the extortion call by Pujari, supposedly from Australia, in which the gangster threatens a shootout at the Patel's residence if the money is not paid,“ said a crime branch official. Crime branch sources said while they were scrutinizing the calls made by the gangster they came across a cell number from Ahmedabad.
“We learned that a jeweller and builder Rimpal Patel had also received extortion calls from Pujari. He was asked to pay Rs 5 crore as protection money ,“ a crime branch official added.