The Special Cell has arrested seven persons who impersonated policemen and lawyers and threatened people for recovery of dues and extorted money.Officers said the accused carried out extortion at the behest of mobile companies and threatened people that they would be sued or put behind bars. The accused had soundproofed their office so that their threatening calls were not heard by anyone. The police had received a complaint that someone had fraudulently obtained a mobile connection by forging the identity of another person and the number was being used to threaten people. After investigations, the police arrested one Pankaj Kumar (25) from Okhla and during interrogation he disclosed that one Sanjeev Kaushik, who has a recovery agency in the name of Akansha and Nagli Dham in Krishna Nagar, was working as a recovery agent for banks and mobile companies. A raid was conducted at the office in Krishna Nagar and Sanjeev (37) and five others — Sunil Dhingra (33), Vikrant Kumar (28), Rohit Tewari (27), Kapil Sharma (20) and Yatin Bajaj (20) — were arrested. The police also found 22 SIMs and 19 phones used for threatening people from the office.Sanjeev has been in the recovery business for the last four years. “The accused were imparted training to talk like police officers and lawyers on the phone. After getting the names and data of customers from the companies, the gang used to call the customers and asked them to pay their dues, threatening them with legal action,” Alok Kumar, DCP Special Cell, said.The gang reportedly managed to extort large amounts of money from vendors. They would threaten people mostly in cases of disputed/written off claims, for which they were given huge commissions by the service providers. During investigations, it has also been found that some retailers/distributors have been fraudulently using the identity of others and giving new connections in bulk in lieu of a handsome commission. The gang managed to procure more than 200 SIM cards from one Deepak Kumar (23) of Chetan Communication in Shahdara. He has also been arrested.
