Overview

• Patil filed a complaint in Thane on October 9 after a year of WhatsApp harassment threatening to leak obscene chats and videos unless he paid.
• Cyber investigators traced call records, an Aadhaar copy, and bank details to Mohan Jyotiba Pawar, 26, from Chandgad.
• Police say Pawar posed as a woman and used voice mimicry to pressure the MLA, and he reportedly confessed during questioning.
• He has been booked under BNS Section 308(3) for extortion and IT Act Section 67, and a court remanded him to police custody until October 15.
• An earlier report said two siblings were arrested, but the latest police account names a single suspect as the alleged orchestrator as the probe continues.