1 held for making extortion call in name of Vikas Dubey

Kanpur:The police on Sunday night arrested a man for allegedly making threat calls to an employee of a computer institute.
To recall, an audio clip had gone viral on social media on August 7 wherein a caller, who claimed himself to be a friend of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, was found threatening an employee of a computer institute to return fee or be ready to face dire consequences.
The police said a number from which the call was made was traced to Barra South resident Dipendra alias Ram Thakur. “Ram Thakur, a High School passout and a worker in a private factory, told us that as he was running short of money, he decided to extort money from the same institute, where he had pursued a diploma course in 2017,” the police said.
The police further said that he told the investigators that he took the name of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, because he was infamous and in order to cause terror and pressure on the institute owner.
“In reality, however, he said that he neither knew and not even met once Vikas Dubey or any of his aides. He further told cops that he did a diploma course from the institute in 2017 by paying a fee of Rs 11,000. He said that he he had asked computer institute employee to convey his owner to arrange cash worth Rs 22,000 or else would be eliminated,” the police said further.
“We have arrested the accused from near Juhi Daharmkanta in Transport Nagar area of the city on late Sunday night. A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code at Juhi police station and the accused has been sent to jail,” said Inspector Juhi Santosh Kumar Arya.