MUMBAI: Even as the Enforcement Directorate was completing the arrest procedure of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut (60) late on Sunday, Vakola police registered a first information report (FIR) against him for criminal intimidation and sexual harassment of a 40-year-old psychologist from Santa Cruz (East) who is a witness in the Rs 1,200-crore Patra Chawl redevelopment case.
Vakola police have sought help from forensic experts to verify the identity of a caller, alleged to be Raut, who made threats and abused the woman during a phone conversation. The call was recorded. The FIR was filed at 10.43 pm on Sunday, a day after a non-cognizable offence was filed against an unknown person under Indian Penal Code section 507 (for criminal intimidation by anonymous communication) was registered in the case. TOI is in possession of the FIR in which MP Sanjay Raut's name has been named as the accused.
