With the arrest of three persons, the Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have solved extortion and firing incident of West Delhi’s Tilak nagar area.
The trio accused has been identified as, Gurpal (29), Jaspreet (38) and Banny Singh (24). Banny is a close friend of the victim and he hatched the conspiracy to extort money from him. According to Monika Bharadwaj, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), West district, a complainant Navdeep Singh who runs a call centre alleged that he received an extortion call demanding `20 lakhs. The accused further threatened him of dire consequences if he fails.
“During investigation, it was revealed that the mobile number from which the ransom call was made, has been issued in Odisha.The call has been made from the area near Tihar Jail and the said number was also operated in the Fatehabad region of Haryana,” said the DCP.”Subsequently after grilling almost 60 suspects, Gurpal who had fired outside the house of the victim was arrested and on his instance, Jaspreet who made the ransom call and Banny Singh, friend of victim were arrested,” said the DCP.
“During interrogation accused persons disclosed that Banny Singh, who was a close friend of the victim hatched the conspiracy along with the duo,” said the DCP .
“Jaspreet used a voice changing application and made a ransom call to the complainant and demanded rupees 20 lakhs and when the victim did not payed the ransom, Gurpal fired outside his house,” said the DCP.