Extortion racket busted in Karnal, three held

Tribune News Service
Karnal, July 12

A team of CIA-2 claim to have busted an extortion gang and arrested three persons in this regard. The team has also recovered Rs 42 lakh from their possession.

The arrested have been identified as Jaidev Singh, Patel Mahinder, both residents of Gujarat while the third accused, Navneet Singh, is from Bilaspur in UP.

CIA-2 in-charge Surinder Singh Sindhu said the kingpin of the gang had been identified as Diler Singh of Assandh, who was operating the gang from the US.

Sindhu said the accused had recently demanded Rs 20 lakh each from two doctors of Assandh. Two cases on June 26 and July 5 were registered by Assandh police on the complaints of the victims.

“We laid a trap for the callers as they had asked one of the doctors to pay the ransom amount in Delhi on July 5. We arrested Jaidev and Mahinder during the sting. We have also recovered Rs 27 lakh and a counting machine,” Sindhu said.

During the investigation, they admitted that they used to deliver the ransom amount from one place to another, for which they got commission, he said, adding that on the information received from the arrested accused, the police arrested Navneet from Punjab on July 8.