Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday arrested two persons who impersonated as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers and extorted money from four state government officials by promising them to settle their departmental probe.
The two were brought here from Maharashtra.
Raipur Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Neeraj Chandrakar told The Pioneer that Ashwani Bhatia (54) and Nishant Ingade (24), have been taken into custody.
The excise and environment conservation board officials lodged a cheating and an extortion case with the police in March and May this year.
The two were nabbed from Amarawati in Maharashtra.
After arrest, they told the police that they took Rs 5.30 lakh each from two officers of the environmental conservation board in Chhattisgarh.
Also, they cheated five officials including four in Chhattisgarh of lakhs of rupees.
They have also similarly extorted money from bureaucrats in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra, Karnataka, New Delhi and other states.
