Pune: The Cantonment police have filed a case against a former corporator and NCP candidate from Hadapsar and three others on charges of extortion and abetting a realtor’s death by suicide on Saturday evening. Preliminary police investigation revealed the four men and other suspects were involved in a property dispute with the victim, and were constantly demanding Rs 50 lakh from him.Sadiq Kapur (57), a real estate agent from Sayyed Nagar, was found hanging in his rented office owned by a lawyer friend in a commercial complex on East Street around 7.30pm on Saturday. A 30-page note, purportedly written by him, was recovered from the spot, police said, and added that it mentioned the former corporator’s name among 35 people responsible for driving him to the extreme step.Sadiq’s son Sajid (27) on Saturday lodged a complaint naming the former corporator and three others, all from Hadapsar, among the suspects who were financially and mentally harassing his father. On Sunday evening, TOI made repeated calls to the former corporator, but his phone was switched off. TOI also sent him a text message, but there was no response at the time of going to press.Sadiq was an alleged aide of gangster Rizwan alias Tipu Pathan and was wanted in an MCOCA case arising from a land grab and extortion, registered against him, Pathan and 11 others on Oct 12, 2025, by the Kalepadal police. “Sadiq has evaded arrest since the police registered this case and even tried to seek protection from a city court. However, the court twice rejected his anticipatory bail applications in the Kalepadal case,” deputy commissioner of police (zone V) Rajlaxmi Shivankar said on Sunday.The Kalepadal police had arrested eight of the 13 suspects in the land grab case. On the police’s inability to trace and arrest Sadiq, Shivankar said, “Sadiq was continuously changing his location from one place to another within the city. It is not yet known when he arrived at his rented office, from where he ran his realty business. He wrote the long note and then killed himself.”“Sadiq’s family members, who were searching for him, reached his office around 6.30pm on Saturday and called the police control room after finding him,” the DCP added.The family members, present at the Cantonment police station, demanded that the police act against all the 35 persons mentioned in the note and also take action against the two police officers named in it. “He was made to run from pillar-to-post for his life. Everyone was chasing him for money, which they wanted to extort from him,” a family member said.Shivankar said, “The note recovered from the site mentioned the names of about 35 persons, including 2 police officers. We will investigate the case, and we will include the names of other people in the FIR if evidence is found against them. Their roles will be verified during investigation.”Shivankar said in reference to the booked suspects that the note stated that these four persons were harassing him for money, about Rs 50 lakh, and that it was a kind of extortion. “Also, there was a dispute over a five-guntha land at Sayyednagar in Hadapsar. The note added that due to these two issues, he was under tremendous mental stress and he ended his life,” the DCP said. “Sadiq’s son and other family members told us that the former corporator forcibly took away the five guntha land from them. We will probe the money issue as well as the land dispute,” Shivankar said.The police have registered a case against the four persons and others under sections 108 (abetment of suicide) and 308 (extortion) and 3(5), common intention, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
