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AAP councillor's son gets extortion call: 'Give Rs 1 cr or will kill you, your family'
June 13, 2025 9:55 am
The caller threatened to kill him and his family if he failed to pay Rs 1 crore as ransom, he said.
19-year-old man who posed as CBI officer arrested for sextortion in Delhi
February 05, 2025 3:58 am
Delhi Police say his victim was blackmailed over a nude video call made by a girl.
Behind extortion calls in Delhi, two ‘gang members passing info on targets from Rajasthan prison’
December 19, 2024 10:12 am
Police have now solved the puzzle. It was two members of different gangs, lodged in the district jail at Rajasthan’s Dausa, who were passing on the information that they got from a man on the outside, said officers.
Man held for making extortion calls to businessman in gangster Neeraj Bawana’s name
September 23, 2024 8:40 pm
The arrest by the Delhi Police Crime Branch came after a complaint was filed by the businessman, Nitesh Gupta, claiming he had received multiple extortion calls.
Vadodara trader gets Rs 1 crore extortion call, 2 held from Rajasthan
June 25, 2024 2:38 pm
One of the men arrested from Rajasthan used to work at the Vadodara trader’s shop and was sacked due to his conduct, the police said.
'Heard of Moosewala murder?' | Pune Man gets extortion call from jailed ‘Santosh Jadhav’; cops say name used to threaten
November 06, 2023 8:46 am
The complainant thereupon approached the police with a complaint. Senior Inspector Hemant Patil, in-charge of Kothrud police station, said, "This prima facie seems to be a case of phone call fraud where an imprisoned dreaded criminal's name has been used to extort and threaten the target. We are investigating,".
Punjab man fakes extortion call to extend his arms licence; booked
January 19, 2023 1:50 am
The man lodged a police complaint on December 28 alleging that he had received an extortion call demanding Rs 50 lakh from him.
Extortion calls made investor drop Rs 6,000 crore Maha plan last year: Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis
January 15, 2023 3:31 pm
Pune is the second growth engine of the state (after Mumbai) and the state government will pay complete attention to the region, he said.
Punjab: Gang that made extortion calls to Nawanshahr businessman busted
December 18, 2022 8:18 am
Senior Superintendent of Police Bhagirath Singh Meena said that a famous businessman of Nawanshahr city complained to police that he was receiving ransom calls from various virtual numbers.
Sidhu Moosewala’s father says his son often used to get extortion calls from Bishnoi gang, others
May 30, 2022 2:29 pm
On Sunday, hours after Moosewala was killed, Canada-based Goldy Brar, allegedly a member of the Bishnoi gang, put out a Facebook post owning responsibility for the killing and alleging police didn’t act against the singer over Middukhera’s murder.
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