nA former Gurugram-based journalist and a woman were arrested on Wednesday by the city police in connection with Rs 4 crore as extortion bid from a guest house operator. However, their third accomplice is yet to be arrested.
According to the police, on March 20 a complaint was filed by Pawan Dahiya of Daulatabad village at DLF Phase - 3 Police Station. In his complaint, he stated that he along with his wife Seema Dahiya were running a guest house named N.R. 29 located at DLF Phase - 3.
On February 2, a woman and her two accomplices had booked a room in his guest house and neither had she given her rent nor did she vacated the room.
“I told her to vacate the room or pay the rent or vacate the building because I took the building on lease from the owner. The trio threatened to implicate me in a false case and demanded Rs 4 crores to settle the matter,” Dhaiya said in his police complaint.
Later a case was filed and on Wednesday and the probe team arrested a former journalist and a woman near Safe Hand hospital located in Badshahpur.
The accused have been identified as Neelam Singh a resident of Rajender Nagar, Delhi and a former Gurugram based Journalist Rashpal Singh of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
During questioning, the duo revealed that they along with another man Mukesh who was working in a local court, had booked the guest house on February 2 in name of Neelam.
“The woman was in possession of a high court lawyer card along with her accomplices and threatened that she will frame me in a false case if I want to avoid this case I will have to pay Rs 4 crores to them,” Dhaiya alleged in his police complaint.
Thereafter, one of the accused Mukesh said that he would solve the matter and asked for a settlement of Rs 40-50 lakh rupees.
“My wife was in acute pressure after knowing the matter and had allegedly attempted to commit suicide in the guest house. I informed the police about the incident who foiled the suicide attempt,” Dahiya stated in his complaint.
“In the police inquiries, it was also learned from the above accused had carried out similar extortion in a guesthouse located in sector-53. A case in this regard had already been filed at the Sector-53 police station,” Assistant Commissioner of police, (crime), Shamsher Singh, said.
“The woman was produced before a local court on Wednesday which sent to judicial custody and the accused former journalist has also been sent in judicial custody by the local court on Thursday. The third accused in the matter will soon be arrested. Further probe is underway,” the ACP, said.