Man held from Chhattisgarh for extortion call of Rs 1crore

Gorakhpur: A man was arrested from Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur aea for extortion call to a farmer of Sikriganj area in Gorakhpur demanding Rs 1 crore on Wednesday, said CO Yadvendra Krishna Narayan Khajni.
According to reports, one Santosh Mani Ojha, who after doing some jobs in Indore and then Mauritius had returned to his home in Gorakhpur in 2018, is doing a small business and farming in Sikriganj. On Tuesday evening he received an extortion call for Rs 1 crore, said the police. He was also threatened to not inform the police,
Ojha informed the police after which the police traced the number through surveillance and within 16 hours arrested one Bajrangi Jagir from Bilaspur in Chattisgarh. The accused is a native of Rajasthan, said CO Khajni in Gorakhpur, Yadvendra Krishna Narayan. “Bajrangi Jagir works as a contractor of welding work. The accused will be brought to Gorakhpur on transit remand,” police said. Earlier on Sunday, a 14-year-old boy of Gorakhpur was kidnapped for a ransom of Rs 1 crore and was later killed.