The Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested two people who were allegedly trying to extort Rs 2 crore from a businessman in Raipur from Jabalpur city of Madhya Pradesh.
The accused were trying to extort money on the behalf of a businessman based in Raipur, Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Shweta Sinha informed here on Wednesday.
She said that the complainant Prateek Kejariwal, resident of Karishma Apartments, Shankar Nagar in Raipur is in the business of making Aluminum lid-covers. He used to run a business from a building owned by Mahesh Sachdeva based in Birgaon area. The duo had developed business relations and on the suggestion of Prateek Kejariwal, Mahesh Sachdeva started dealing in plastic goods.
Mahesh while dealing in plastic business came in contact with one Pawan Agrawal based in Ahmedabad. Both the parties then had a dealing of about Rs 12 Crore. Pawan Agrawal however paid Rs 10 crore. The cheque of Rs 2 crore handed over by Pawan Agrawal was dishonoured by the bank, Sinha maintained.
Irked over the loss, Mahesh Sachdeva accused Prateek of failure to avail the amount and began to build pressure on Praeek for getting back the money. Meanwhile, Mahesh came in contact with two persons Karun Ben alias (32) hailing from Madan Mahal, Kunj Bihari Society, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh and Deepak Jatav (26) of Chhoti Mahakali Mandir Ghee Bhandar, Jabalpur, she said.
Mahesh then gave the duo the contract to extort money from Prateek, police said. Karun Ben and Deepak Jatav then started to make threatening calls to the complainant. They even took Prateek on gun point for extorting money, Sinha said. Prateek was so scared, that he left his pregnant wife and home and hid in a city hotel. Ben and Jatav had also threatened Prateek’s wife, she said.
Unable to bear further pressure, Prateek reported the matter to the police who then arrested Ben and Jatav from Jabalpur. Meanwhile, Mahesh is on the run. A country made pistol along with cash Rs 17,500 were also recovered from the possession of accused duo, Sinha said.