nThe Special Task Force of the Haryana police will produce Kaushal, the alleged wanted criminal, in the local court on Monday. Sources in the STF said they will press for more days of police remand for further investigation.
Kaushal, the alleged wanted gangster of the State has revealed during his interrogation that he had called up around 80 people to extort money.
The gangster reportedly confessed that he has managed to extort Rs 1 crore and was expecting a further amount of Rs 50 lakh from his targets.
A police officer privy to the investigation said they have recovered contact numbers of these people from Kaushal's phone and are talking to them. The officer added that some people from the business community used to provide contact numbers of fellow businessmen to Kaushal.
"Kaushal is apprehensive in going to jail as he fears that some of his rivals can eliminate him. He requested the police officials that he should not be sent to jail and instead should be kept in the police station itself for atleast five months," said an officer.
"We have taken him on 7-day police remand for interrogation and have asked the police of other districts to verify his involvements in other cases. We are collecting more information about his accomplices and they will be arrested soon," said DIG STF Satish Balan.
During the preliminary interrogation, police recovered the call details of the accused by taking possession of the mobile phone recovered from his possession, the police said.
The alleged gangster also revealed during police interrogation that his gang member does not want to kill Vijay Batra alias Tanrik, who was a bookie. He was gunned down accidentally by his henchmen.
Kaushal had jumped parole after coming out of Bhondsi jail in December 2015 and had been absconding since then. The gangster was wanted in multiple cases of extortion, murder, attempt to murder and kidnapping in Gurugram, Faridabad, Rohtak, Rewari, Jhajjar, Palwal and Rajasthan.
The accused was living in Dubai with a fake passport which he had obtained on the name of Naresh Yadav. Kaushal wanted in over 100 criminals cases carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh announced by the Haryana police.