Former Navy officer gets extortion call

Gurugram, February 4

A retired Navy officer, resident of Jhajjar district, accused that he received an extortion call seeking Rs 10 lakh. An FIR has been registered at Pataudi police station.

According to a complaint filed by Brahm Prakash of Chamanpura village in Jhajjar, it was on Wednesday when he was near Gurugram Chowk in Pataudi that he received a call on his mobile phone.

“The caller misbehaved and abused me and demanded an extortion of Rs 10 lakh. He threatened to kill me on the non-payment of the amount. I suspect that the caller might be from Nainital, as I recently built a house in Nainital’s Pasoli area,” the complainant told the police.

As per the complaint, an FIR has been registered against unknown caller under Sections 384 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at Pataudi police station.

A senior police officer said they had put the mobile number on surveillance. — OC