After analysing hundreds of calls, cops nabbed accused in Alwar extortion case
New Delhi: After analysing more than 100 phone calls and chats on WhatsApp related to extortion, Delhi Police eventually made breakthrough in a case where Rs 10 crore was being demanded to "settle a gang-rape case" lodged in Alwar district of Rajasthan and arrested three men in the case.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North West) Aslam Khan on Monday said that the accused were identified as Mohit Goel, the founder of now defunct Noida-based telecommunication company Ringing Bell, Vikas Mittal and a woman.
"Accused Mittal, who owns a lounge in Punjabi Bagh area, posed as an influential person and his contacts were so powerful in prison that he could easily transmit diseases inside the jail," said the DCP.
In one such instance during the meeting with the victim's brother, lounge
owner made a phone call to some person whom he claimed as a jail superintendent and told him to provide Bisleri water to the persons who were in the jail.
Explaining the case lodged in Alwar, Khan said that five men had been arrested earlier this year after reportedly being falsely implicated for the gang-rape of a woman.
The brother of one of these five men then contacted Delhi Police. "He approached us after Goel, Mittal and the arrested woman had contacted him and told him to pay Rs 10 crore for settling the matter. The man had paid them more than Rs one crore," said Khan.
She added that in successive calls, the three accused kept decreasing the extortion amount and eventually reached for a final payment of Rs 40 lakh.
"The accused ensured the brother that if the amount is paid, the woman who had levelled the gang-rape charges will sign an affidavit claiming that she will withdraw the case," said the DCP.
On Sunday, after the case reached the North West District police, calls made by the three accused to the relative were analysed and, within 24 hours, a trap was laid to them from hotel situated in Netaji Subhash Place.
Five to six policemen were present at the hotel, with one of them in plain clothes.
After the right moment arrived the police team saw the accused entering the hotel and arrested them on the spot on Sunday night.
