Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association in Mumbai vouches for Sachin Vaze and MVA govt’s extortion and threats

After former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh’s sensational letter to Uddhav Thackeray the place he accused Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of operating a big scale extortion racket via API Sachin Vaze, as per a report by Mid-Day, the Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association (AHAR) is advocating Singh’s allegations as they recount horror tales of extortion mafia allegedly run by Vaze and co.According to the publication, API Sachin Vaze had allegedly began gathering cash two months earlier than Anil Deshmukh made the alleged calls for. In reality, it was well-oiled equipment with institutions being divided into three classes to derive their quantities.It is being alleged that Vaze had listed bars into three classes: A, B and C. While chatting with Mid-Day, a bar proprietor stated, “The A category was supposed to shell out Rs 2 lakh a month, B had to pay Rs 1.5 lakh while C had to pay Rs 1 lakh.” The proprietor added, “Waze must have needed the machine to count the cash he collected.”It is pertinent to notice that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had earlier seized a currency-counting machine and over Rs 5 lakh money from a Mercedes which was utilized by Vaze.According to the report, as quickly because the enterprise limped again to normalcy submit the lockdown, hafta collections resumed in keeping with numerous restaurant and bar house owners. This is in step with Singh’s letter, in keeping with which, Vaze used to gather cash from numerous institutions by threatening the house owners with impending raids.An nameless resort proprietor stated, “Waze had been running his shop at the CIU office inside the compound of the Commissioner of Police office in Crawford Market. He would call entrepreneurs from the Food and Beverage business and convince them to cough up monthly amounts. In return, he would assure us that SSB officials would not conduct any raids at our establishments. He also assured that we’d stay out of other legal troubles.”A senior member of AHAR stated, “A few hotel and bar owners in Ghatkopar, Borivli and Worli had been collecting funds from nearby hotel owners and sending the money to Waze at the CIU office.”The proprietor of a well known restaurant in Bandra stated, “We got Waze’s horror service in the name of protection from the SSB raids. This happened soon after businesses resumed after the lockdown. It is hard to believe that Waze would be involved in such acts without keeping high-ranking officials in the loop.”Such was the worry and the effectivity of the extortion racket allegedly run by Vaze and co, that those that refused to conform would face a crackdown by the SSB. The SSB offers with women bars and inns. Mid-Day quoted a supply as saying, “SSB carried out raids at hotels and bars and filed cases. The last SSB raid was in early February. After that, no raid was conducted as everybody agreed to pay the money to be able to operate.”The claims made by numerous resort and bar house owners are in step with the allegations made by Param Bir Singh in his explosive letter. Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh thus has no ethical proper to remain on.