In.news.yahoo.com reports:
Actor arrested for trying to extort money from Delhi businessman
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) A former TV and Bollywood actor and his aide were arrested in the capital for allegedly making threatening calls posing as underworld don Chhotta Shakeel’s henchman to extort money from a Delhi based businessman, the police said Saturday.
Aslam Ansari, 31, and Phool Singh, 25, were demanding Rs.5 million from the south Delhi garment exporter, and were arrested Thursday, the police said.
The businessman complained to the Delhi Police Anti-Extortion Cell saying ‘he has been receiving several threatening calls from a person identifying himself as Badshah, a henchman of Chhotta Shakeel’, deputy commissioner of police (crime) Neeraj Thakur told reporters.
The police didn’t reveal the name of the businessman.
According to Thakur, the extortionists kept making calls and sending SMSes since November last to the complainant asking him to arrange the money, else face dire consequences.
‘All the calls were made from a mobile phone registered in Mumbai and the caller was speaking in a Mumbai-like dialect. Through electronic surveillance, the location of the phone was traced to a house in west Delhi,’ Thakur said.
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