Man held for making extortion calls to businessman in gangster Neeraj Bawana’s name

The archetypal telephone came connected September 11, demanding Gupta wage Rs 5 lakh. The caller claimed to beryllium associated with gangster Bawana and threatened to harm Gupta and his household if the request was not met. Gupta allegedly received akin calls connected September 17 and 18, starring him to record a complaint.

Police past lodged a First Information Report (FIR) nether BNS conception 308(4), pertaining to transgression intimidation and threats of grievous harm.

Based connected the accusation provided by Gupta, the Crime Branch identified the caller arsenic Nitin Machanda; helium would usage a Haryanvi accent during the extortion calls successful an effort to person his unfortunate that helium was a gangster.

On receiving accusation that helium would beryllium adjacent Majlis Park Metro Station, constabulary acceptable a trap and arrested him.

During questioning, Manchanda told constabulary that helium had allegedly made akin extortion calls to different businessman, Aman Bhalla, the proprietor of Aman Makeover successful Adarsh Nagar. Bhalla had already lodged a ailment astatine Adarsh Nagar constabulary station.

On searching Manchanda’s residence, constabulary said they recovered the mobile telephone and SIM cards utilized successful the extortion attempts.

A nonmigratory of Rohtak’s Meham, Manchanda holds a diploma successful machine hardware and erstwhile owned a mobile shop. “He fell successful emotion with a comparative of his landlord and got joined to her. After that, helium got jobs successful antithetic backstage companies, including the Delhi Metro, but near them due to the fact that helium thought the wage paid was insufficient. After speechmaking quality articles connected societal media astir gangsters extorting money, helium thought of making a speedy subordinate by demanding ransom,” explained DCP (Crime Branch) Satish Kumar.