Posing as a member of the banned outfit of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), a 22-year old engineering student attempted to extort Rs 15 lakh from a government official.
The crime branch of the district police succeeded in nabbing the offender within hours after tracing the mobile phone number from which the extortion SMS and phone call was received.
According to the police, at around 8 am on October 20, 2014 Executive Engineer of Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) received an SMS informing a letter attached with a cigarette box kept at the bumper of his car. After an hour the officer received a call on his mobile phone and the caller asked about the letter but the victim refused to pay such a huge amount to the caller.
The victim mustered courage to inform the police and a complaint regarding the extortion call and letter was registered. In the letter the accused demanded Rs 15 lakh within 24 hours and failing to provide money would endanger lives of the officer and his family and the extortion demand has been made by SIMI organization.
After the complaint was made crime branch Bhopal with the help of Cyber cell arrested theaccused. He was identified as Drona Kumar Sinha of Patna.
He confessed that he had completed his BE Computer Science from JNCT and was in search of job for the past few months but while searching for the job he got an idea to make fast money. He took a SIM card based on fake documents and used the SIM for the crime.
When questioned regarding targeting of the victim he replied that he had rented the apartment of victim and was confident that the victim would not inform the police and would provide the money easily. Accused has planned and executed the crime or he was helped by other accomplices would be investigated.