Businessman abducted, Rs 1.5 lakh extorted by men impersonating Delhi Police sleuths: Cops
They allegedly abduct him in a car, assault him, and then extort a total of Rs 1.5 lakh from him. The sequence of events played out on Thursday, said officers.
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A police crime team and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) experts were summoned to the crime scene to collect evidence.
(Express Archive Photo)Four people enter an insurance policy office in East Delhi. Posing as sleuths of the Delhi Police’s Special Unit, they proceed to threaten to file a fake case against Salman, the owner. They allegedly abduct him in a car, assault him, and then extort a total of Rs 1.5 lakh from him. The sequence of events played out on Thursday, said officers.
According to the police, a cab driver, a bakery supervisor, a data analyst, a gym trainer, and three property dealers were all part of a fake police team that allegedly extorted Rs 1.5 lakh from the 53-year-old owner. Only four of them entered the office in the Laxmi Nagar area on the day of the incident.
Eight people, including one of Salman’s former employees, have been arrested in the case. The accused allegedly seized Salman’s laptop and phone on the pretext of ‘investigating his operations.’
“Then, they forcibly took him away in a Hyundai Venue car, physically assaulted him, and extorted a total of ₹1.5 lakh from him — ₹70,000 directly into an account — under the threat of falsely implicating him in a fabricated insurance case,” Abhishek Dhania, Deputy Commissioner (East), said.
The same night, the police said, five accused, including those who posed as police personnel, were caught while they were travelling on the Noida Link Road in the same car in which they allegedly threatened Salman.
Cab driver Sunny Sharma (28), Ankit (32), bakery supervisor Vikram Singh (35), data analyst Rahul Gupta (27), and gym trainer Rahul Yadav (27) were all questioned. During the questioning, they allegedly revealed that another person, Hunny Kumar, had orchestrated the plan, the police said.
Subsequently, three more people, including Kumar, 31, and property dealers, Anil Kant, 33, and Jeetpal, 42, were arrested, the police added.
“During questioning, it was revealed that the accused, Hunny Kumar, a former employee of the complainant, had left the job approximately two weeks ago. He provided inside information to the accused, Sunny Sharma. Sharma then mobilised his associates to execute the robbery. Further investigation disclosed that Sharma had previously been arrested in a cyber fraud case in Ghaziabad, UP, for which FIR details are being procured,” DCP Dhania said.
A case under sections 137(2), 309(4), 309(6), and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on charges of abduction and robbery, among others, was registered at the Laxmi Nagar police station on Friday.
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