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CONSPIRACY TO EXTORT MONEY FROM A DELHI BASED BUSINESSMAN HATCHED..

 CONSPIRACY TO EXTORT MONEY FROM A DELHI BASED BUSINESSMAN HATCHED BY HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATE UNRAVELLED.

  • COMPLAINANT  IS A WELL TO DO BUSINESSMAN.
  • TWO PERSONS, INCLUDING HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATE AND A CRIMINAL APPREHENDED.

 

A team of officers of Crime Branch led by ACP KPS Malhotra and consisting of Insp. Surinder Singh Sandhu, SIs  Neeraj Kumar, Braham Dev,  HCs Abhey Singh, Ajeet, Surender, Nitin Cts Ajay, Praveen, Pravesh and Sandeep Dabas under the supervision of DCP Crime Sh Bhisham Singh  have arrested two persons involved in extortion.  They had demanded Rs 70-80 Lacs from the complainant, a businessman and resident of Timar Pur. One of the arrested persons is known to the complainant. He had hatched the conspiracy along with a criminal associate to extort money from the well to do businessman. His criminal associate is previously involved in a case of robbery of the year 2011 of PS Connaught Place.

 

On 30.05.14 the complainant, a businessman and resident of Timar Pur received an extortion call on his mobile phone in which the caller demanded Rs 70-80 Lacs or he would face dire consequences. On 02.06.14, the complainant again received a call that he would be killed if the extortion money was not paid. On 03.06.14 the complainant got a case of Extortion registered at PS Timar Pur.

 

On 29.08.14 on specific information two persons responsible for making the extortion calls were apprehended. They were identified as Pankaj Aggarwal (aged- 34 Yrs) R/o Vijay Nagar, Old Gupta Colony, Delhi, and Naresh Kumar Gaur (aged- 26 Yrs)  R/o Kishanganj, Delhi. They were arrested under the appropriate sections of the law.

 

The arrested persons were subjected to intensive interrogation. It was revealed that Pankaj Aggarwal is a close associate of the complainant. He had hatched the conspiracy along with Naresh Kumar Gaur, a criminal to extort money from the complainant. It was further revealed that Naresh Kumar Gaur made the extortion calls but when the complainant did not pay up, in order to convince the complainant that the extortion calls were genuine, Pankaj Aggarwal told the complainant that he had also received extortion calls on his mobile phone from the extortionist, in which the caller had threatened that he would kill the complainant if the extortion money was not paid.

 

To further weave the web of conspiracy, and to further convince the complainant that the extortion calls were genuine Pankaj Aggarwal, on 19.08.14 went to PS Mukherjee Nagar and made a false complaint that he had been robbed of his mobile and cash by motorcycle/car borne robbers at gun point. He further stated that they had also enquired about the complainant and threatened to eliminate him and complainant if the extortion money was not paid. From Pankaj Aggarwal has been recovered the mobile phone that was supposed to have been robbed.

 

Pankaj Aggarwal is a post graduate and deals in confectionary items. Naresh Kumar Gaur is a graduate and is a Bouncer by profession. He is also involved in a case of robbery of the year 2011 of PS Connaught Place.

Concerned police stations have been informed about their arrest.

ASHOK CHAND

ADDL.COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

CRIME BRANCH:DELHI

Source: Delhi Police (PR Cell)