Two alleged members of Haryana’s Mewat based gang were arrested for allegedly extorting an advocate in the national capital after trapping him online, police said on Saturday. The modus operandi of the gang members was to lure persons in Delhi-NCR by sending them friend requests through social media platforms and then chat with them by posing as women, a senior police official said.
The accused have been identified as Arsad Khan (30) and Mushtaq Khan (39), both residents of Rajasthan, police said. Both were wanted in a case of online extortion, blackmailing and criminal intimidation through
social media platforms, police said.
Police received a tip-off on Thursday about Arshad coming to the flower market, Chhattarpur and a raid was conducted. Around 6.15 pm, Arshad was spotted and was nabbed, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Jasmeet Singh said.
One pistol and three live cartridges were recovered from him, they said. On his instance, Mushtaq was also arrested from a house in Rajasthan’s Dausa district on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, the DCP said.