MUMBAI, SEPT 28: A sub-inspector of police in the CBI jumped off a fourth floor apartment on Wednesday after confessing to a Delhi CBI team that he had extorted Rs four lakh from a businessman in Mumbai.The SI, Vijay Agale, is admitted to Sion hospital with compound fractures and was operated upon yesterday. Two other accomplices of his, Vasant Joil and Radhakrishnan Pillai Nair are employed in the Central Excise and Customs department respectively. A fourth accomplice is absconding.A Vasai businessmen, Navin Savla had complained to the CBI, Delhi that he was forced to pay Rs four lakh on September 4, to some men who approached him claiming they were CBI officers. They had apparently told him that there was a case against him in the CBI, Mumbai. Savla had visited the CBI office subsequently to check if there was in fact a case. He got lucky when he spotted Agale there who had assumed another name when he came with his partners in crime to collect the money. Savla then approached the CBI, Delhi.The Delhi team registered the case on September 26 and searched the houses of the accused on September 27. Being government employees, they all happen to live in the CGS quarters at Antop Hill.On Wednesday, Agale confessed to his crime and led the CBI to Vasant Joil and then futher to Pillai. The accused also admitted that the foursome (including the absconding accused) had extorted Rs four lakh and had shared it in equal parts. The CBI team recovered Rs 68,000 cash from Pillai and cash deposits of Rs 80,000 from Agale's house. Joil seems to have spent his share of the amount.At Joil's residence, after he had made his statement, Agale apparently made a phone call to his wife, and even as the CBI officers were watching him, suddenly leapt to the window and jumped.Joil and Pillai have been arrested and were remanded to judicial custody till October 3.
