Overview
- Dharavi police registered an FIR under BNS sections 308(2), 204 and 3(5) naming Dipali Deepak Dalvi, Megha Sonawane, Hanumanta Nagappa Kunchikurve and one unidentified person.
- The complaint states two women posed as BMC staff on October 30, photographed children inside a factory and extorted Rs 25,000 by threatening child‑labour action.
- The group returned on December 1 with Kunchikurve to demand more money, locals confronted them, and the encounter was captured in a clip that spread online.
- Police have arrested Kunchikurve, 36, while the two named women and another suspect remain at large as the investigation continues.
- Investigators say at least four victims have reported payments of Rs 5,000–25,000 and suspect former clean‑up marshals ran the scheme for months, netting about Rs 80,000 in a single day.