Two persons have ben arrested for trying to extort Rs 50 lakh from a businessman in Gurugram's Farrukhnagar area, the police said on Monday. Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) Bilaspur arrested both the accused from Gurugram on Sunday.
Three members of the gang were arrested earlier in May. The arrested accused was produced before the district court on Monday and has been sent for police remand for further probe.
The culprits have been identified as Sandeep alias Duma (28) a gangster and Praveen alias Kala (28), both are the residents of Gurugram's Farrukhnagar area.
According to the police a Farrukhnagar businessman Radheshyam, who is the owner of a sweet shop and restaurant, approached the police on April 26 and filed a complaint that he had received an extortion call demanding Rs 50 lakh from an unidentified number.
He told the police that on April 17 his restaurant was attacked by a few unknown men. The accused had allegedly opened fire at his sweet shop.
later a man, who identified himself as Sandeep of Duma village, called him up on April 24 and demanded Rs 50 lakh, threatening to eliminate him and his entire family if he failed to give the amount.
A case had been registered in this regard with Farrukhnagar police station under sections 387 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“Following on secret information the culprits have been arrested from Farrukhnagar area on Sunday. They had joined the crime world in 2009 and want to earn quick money. The duo were involved in two dozen cases of murder, attempt to murder, dacoity. They granted bail a year ago,” DCP (crime) Sumit Kuhar, said.
During questioning, Sandeep Duma revealed that he had hatched the plan to attack and extort money from the businessman. They used to do rekey before committing the crime the police said.