PATNA: The
Patna police are in touch with the security agencies of Nepal to trace and nab the suspect who had made an extortion call of Rs 4 crore to a Patna based neurosurgeon on August 20.
The doctor SM Rohtagi had received the call from a thirteen digit cellphone number at around 12.45pm on his personal cellphone in which the unidentified caller demanded the extortion from him saying that he was earning too much.
The extortionist neither identified himself nor provided any information about where to pay the money. The caller had disconnected the call saying that he would call back in ten minutes but no further calls were received by the doctor. Following the call, the neurosurgeon lodged an FIR with the Patliputra police station on the same day.
After, initial investigation, it was clear that the extortion call was made from Nepal.
Sources said that a team of Patna police is stationed at
Motihari in East Champaran which is near the Indo-Nepal border, for the last couple of days and are in continuous touch with the their counterparts in Nepal.
Sources said that Patna police were yet to get the call detail record (CDR) and details of the persons on whose name, the SIM card was issued, from Nepalese authorities.
Patna SSP
Manu Maharaaj, refusing to disclose much detail, said that a team of Patna police was near Indo-Nepal border and is cautiously exchanging information so that the caller is pinpointed and is nabbed.
"At present, police can’t disclose that from which place of Nepal, the call was made. Only after the arrest of the suspect, it would become clear that with what motive he had made the extortion call," he said. When asked, the SSP said at present it would be too early to say if the call was made by any criminal gang or by someone else.
Sources said that it might take a week more before the police could get the CRD and other technical details to pinpoint the extortionist.
Sources also said that after a couple of days of the extortion call, the doctor received another call from another Nepalese number in which the caller had asked for medication for his
spinal cord pain. “Police were trying to ascertain if the call was genuinely of a patient or someone has called to take a stock of situation or check doctor’s reaction,” he added.
