3 men arrested for extortion bid posing as discom officials in Delhi

A team led by SHO Rajendra Kumar Jain conducted raids and tracked down the caller’s phone number. With the help of the caller’s current location, one of the accused was arrested. Additionally, two accomplices of the accused were apprehended based on information provided by the arrested after raids were conducted at multiple locations.

“On sustained interrogation, it was revealed that the accused posed as fake BSES officials and visited under-construction sites to extort money from owners of the site in the name of fine for using domestic electricity for commercial purposes,” said an officer.

“It has been revealed that they had extorted money from many others before, but those incidents were not reported,” said the DCP.

“It was also revealed that these three worked as recovery agents for BSES through a private company. After completing their tenure, they started extorting money from people,” the DCP added.

The accused have been identified as Shammi Chadha, a property dealer; Dinesh Kumar, a momos vendor with two previous cases; and Shakil Ahmed, an electrician with no previous cases.