A businessman was arrested on Sunday from Delhi for making an extortion call to his brother-in-law, a trader in this suburb of the national capital, sources said.
Last Thursday, Shailender Kumar, who owns a book shop in the Sadar Bazar area here was warned that his child would be kidnapped and killed if he didn’t cough up `20 lakhs.
“The mobile phone number of the caller was put on surveillance. After tracking it, the location of the caller was found to be Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar. The accused was identified as Kamal Kumar, who is also a book-seller in the capital and the brother-in-law of victim,” DCP (east) Abhey Singh Rao said.
“On April 5, he came to Gurgaon by Metro and made extortion calls from the Sushant Lok area. After the calls, he switched off the number. Earlier, the used number was issued to a IIT student of Delhi but he had surrendered that a month back. The accused had activated it on March 28,” the DCP added.
The accused was running losses in business. To overcome them, he had hatched the conspiracy. He was arrested Sunday evening from Delhi.
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Mini-truck rams police gypsy, Four cops injured
New Delhi, April 8: Four policemen on way to conduct a raid were injured, including one seriously, when a speeding mini-truck hit a police Gypsy in south-west Delhi, the police said on Sunday.
The incident took place at a traffic signal in Dwarka Sector-16 at around 10.40 pm On Saturday and the injured were identified as sub-inspector Sunil Kumar, head constable Nawab Singh and constables Kuldeep and Lakshmichand, all posted at the Chhawla police station.
The condition of Kuldeep is said to be serious. The others were discharged from hospital after preliminary treatment. Kuldeep has been shifted to Mata Chanan Devi hospital in Janakpuri.
The police said they were on way to Sagarpur to conduct a raid. The driver of the mini-truck, Ramashish, was arrested and a case of rash and negligent driving registered against him.
Meanwhile, three men were arrested in west Delhi soon after they robbed a collection agent of over `21,000, the police said on Sunday.
The arrested have been identified as Mahender, Deepak, both 22 years, and Tulsi Ram, 21, all residents of Anand Parbat, additional commissioner of police (west) V, Renganathan said.