4 ARRESTED FOR EXTORTING 1.8 CR FROM CIVIC ENGINEER

New Delhi, June 29: Four men, including the driver of a civic body engineer, were arrested for allegedly trying to extort 1.80 crore from him, the police said on Friday.

The accused, identified as Sachin Singh ( 19), Sonu ( 22), Sehdev ( 23), Mukesh ( 27), all residents of Lalkuan in Delhi, were arrested from Faridabad.

They allegedly posed as members of the Kranti gang and extorted 1.8 crore the police said.

The Kranti gang’s suspected kingpin Rajesh Bharti, along with three others, was shot dead in an encounter with the Delhi police’s special cell in Chhatarpur on June 9. To avoid being detected, the accused used to call using Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP) and texting apps.

A complaint was filed by the engineer on June 13 alleging that he had received several threat calls for extortion from US and Canada mobile numbers.

The accused even made an attempt to abduct the victim’s son, while he was returning home from Faridabad on June 13 and a complaint was filed at Surajkund police station.

They threatened the victim if he didn’t pay money, they will kill his family, said R. Baaniya, Deputy commissioner of police ( South).

The police laid a trap at Badkhal Chowk in Faridabad where the accused had asked the victim to deliver the money and nabbed them.