Three held for making extortion calls to two south Delhi businessmen

The accused, identified as Rahul alias Jagga (23), Roop Singh (22) and Mukesh (25) were arrested on Monday by police officials of Greater Kailash-I Police Station.

The trio made threatening calls to extort money from Tarlochan Singh Virdi, a government contractor of electric work and resident of Gautam Nagar area, demanding Rs 2.5 crore from him, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South East) P Karunakaran said.

In another incident, a trader operating from Kalkaji and resident of GK-I, Deepak Puri received extortion call from the the three accused demanding Rs 4 crore from him, he said. Complaints were registered in this connection and a special team was constituted to probe the matter, DCP said.

During investigations it was learnt that in both the incidents same mobile number was used by the extortionists to make the calls to the two businessmen and the mobile number was traced to one Satyabeer Singh, he said. Singh had lost his mobile phone in Sangam Vihar area in July last year but did not make any complaint in this regard.