Dehradun police have arrested two persons from DAV (PG) College Road on Thursday on the charge of demanding Rs 50, 000 as extortion from a complainant. The accused had posed as office bearers of DAV (PG) College students’ union, the complaint said.
The accused have been identified as Vinit, native of Saharanpur and Manmohan, resident of Nehru Colony. Police recovered a mobile phone used for threatening the complainant, said SP City Ajay Singh.
He said that earlier, Mohit Kumar Sharma, resident of Dalanwala registered a complaint at police station Dalanwala and stated that he had received several phone calls demanding extortion of Rs 50, 000 over the past two days.
The miscreants had threatened him of dire consequences if he failed to cough up the money demanded.
Acting on the complaint, a case was registered in Dalanwala police station. SP City Singh formed a team to investigate the case.
In course of interrogation, the accused are learnt to have admitted that they had made around 15 businessmen to pay them extortion money through threats while posing themselves as office bearers of the students’ union.