Mumbai Police tracked down the person making ransom calls to Mahesh Bhatt’s family to lucknow. TN Raghunathan reports
Within days after film maker Mahesh Bhatt, his wife Soni Razdan and his actor-daughter Alia Bhatt received extortion and death threats from an unknown person, the Anti-Extortion Cell of Mumbai Police with the help of Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh on Thursday tracked down the caller to lucknow where they arrested him.
Identifying the arrested suspected caller as one Sandeep Sahu (24), the police said that Sahu had for some time been operating as a gangster.
The investigations have revealed that Sahu had allegedly handed out extortion and death threats to Mahesh Bhatt, his wife Soni Razdan and his actor-daughter Alia Bhatt, impersonating underworld don Babloo Shrivastava.
Having arrested Sahu with the help of the UP STF personnel, a visiting team of Mumbai police is bringing Sahu back to Mumbai.
The investigations in the latest case have revealed that suspect youth had come to Mumbai a few months ago for a break on film industry. However, he could not get a break and returned to Uttar Pradesh. During the process, he incurred heavy expenditure, a thing must have been on Sahu’s mind when he allegedly made extortion calls to Bhatt.