23-year-old held for making extortion calls

The complainant,Habibul Hassan,told the police he received the call for money on December 22 last year. “The caller threatened to kill Hassan if he failed to give in to his demand. Influenced by a scene in Godfather,Haplu cut a chicken into pieces and threw them in front of Hassan’s house in Farrukhabad from where his brother runs a shop,” a police official said. “A case of extortion was then registered at the Lodhi Colony police station.”

As police dispatched teams to Kanpur and Farrukhabad,it was found that most calls were being made from Batla House in Jamia Nagar. “A monitoring team was stationed there too,” the police added.

H G S Dhaliwal,Deputy Commissioner of Police,South Delhi,said Khan had accomplices in Farrukhabad working for him after he moved to Delhi to extort the money from Hassan. “On our instructions,a deal was struck and the caller agreed to accept Rs 5 lakh as first installment. We laid a trap at New Friends Colony,from where he had decided to collect the money,and arrested Khan,” the police official said.

During interrogation,Khan told the police he had abducted a boy in Farrukhabad in April 2007 along with his accomplices. He identified them as Amit Sahu,Sajib,Mujahid,Narender and Happy. After he failed to get ransom,Khan said he killed the boy.

Later,he arranged the phone numbers of rich businessmen based around Farrukhabad to extort money from them. He had zeroed in on Nafisul Hassan,Habibul’s brother,through a relative who was the resident of the same area as the victim.