Police have registered a case against unidentified men for allegedly making an extortion threat to the headman of Parasoli village here.
The headman, Haji Ilyas Ansari, who is also the owner of a brick kiln, alleged in a complaint that he received a threatening call yesterday, asking him to pay up a sum of Rs 5 lakh.
In similar case at New Mandi area here, miscreants demanded Rs 20 lakhs from a trader, Vinod Kumar, over phone and threatened him yesterday, police said.
A case has been registered in this regard.
Police said they are using call records to trace the identity of the miscreants in both cases.
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