13k fake complaints, extortion and threat calls

Kanpur.................3
Faiz.Siddiqui@timesgroup.com
Kanpur:A man claiming himself to be a resident of Bikru, few days ago gave a written complaint at local police station pleading authorities to register an FIR against a man, accusing him to be a close aide of slain gangster -Vikas Dubey and who had grabbed a land in the village.
“He is an aide of slain gangster -Vikas Dubey, and terrorise poor villagers and grab their land,” says the man, also providing the complete detailed address of the ‘aide of gangster - Vikas Dubey’ to the police seeking stern and quick action against the man.
The police in order to initiate investigation rushed to the village to locate the whereabouts of the applicant. However, they found that none with the name given in the application exist in the village. Even the telephone numbers mentioned in the application was found to be false. Further inquiry revealed that the plaint was filed only to settle personal score.
This is not an isolate case. “A large number of such complaints from within the jurisdiction of Chaubeypur and Billhaur police stations, have been pouring in at the offices of IG range, DIG and Circle officer Billhaur. People are now encashing the situation and filing complaints against their rivals, and most of them are turning out to be false,” informed police sources.
The police have since the Bikru incident received more than 100 plaints. “However, one third of such complaints during probe turn out to be false,” said a police official.
The complaints are not only limited to settle personal scores, other SOS calls are on extortion threats by newbie goons, trying to fill the don’s vacuum and trying to invoke Dubey’s name, which still spells terror not only across the vast swathes of villages around Bikru.
Recently, an Army personnel posted in Nagaland, who had come to his native home in the City, and who was not in good terms with his wife, in his complaint had alleged that he got the call from a man who introduced himself to be a friend of slain gangster -Vikas Dubey, and threatened him to take care of his wife and take her along with him to his posting place in Nagaland. The caller further warned that if he did not pay heed to his demand, he would eliminate him. Army personnel also alleged that that the caller also said that slain gangster Vikas Dubey, was his friend. He also said that once he had excecuted a killing of an official inside the court.
Earlier, a computer institute owner was threatened of dire consequences by an extortionist in the name of Vikas Dubey.
A police official in Crime branch said, “Dealing with such cases is a new challenge. The frequency of such cases is on the rise.”
The department is making a list of such complainants and trying to zero in on them and thereafter book them as per the law. “The initiative, will curb unnecessary cases being filed at stations, DIG, and IG offices, save the time and energy of the department and help them to focus on other critical duties,” said IG range Mohit Agarwal, who added,”We have already initiated action in connection with extortion threat calls. One such person was arrested from Barra South area. Identified as 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,” he said.
The police further said that he told the investigators that he took the name of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, because he was famous 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.
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