The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested a youth for allegedly trying to extort Rs 5 lakh from his uncle who is an associate professor with Delhi University (DU). The 25-year-old youth impersonated a gangster and threatened the professor over phone.
The accused, identified as Atish Ranjan, alias Trilochan Kumar, alias Sumit was arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police after a tip-off he would be reaching Mehrauli- Badarpur Road.
It was found that Ranjan is the nephew of Suman Verma, an associate professor in the Mathematics Department of Delhi University who had registered a complaint at Maurice Nagar Police Station last year saying he had been getting extortion calls.“During interrogation, Ranjan revealed it was he who had been making those threat calls to his uncle and demanding Rs 5 lakh since he was in dire financial straits,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ashok Chand. The mobile phone and the SIM have been forfeited.
Ranjan hails from Patna where he had worked in a BPO and an MNC. He arrived in Delhi in 2010 where he joined a bank as sales executive for six months. In 2012, he switched his careers and started outsourcing maître d’s to ceremonies. In 2013, he was mired in financial crisis and devised a plan to exact money from his financially sound uncle.