Rajkot: Four persons including a woman were booked on Sunday night and two of them arrested for allegedly blackmailing two traders for Rs one lakh in Rajkot.
Police said the accused, Vijay Garchar (30), Gunvant Makwana (32), his wife Divya Makwana (28) and Ashok Koli (25), had allegedly trapped Deep Gajipara (27) and Shailesh Patel (28).
According to the details of the case, a friend of Gajipara had given him the number of Divya, saying that she could arrange for a woman to have physical relations. Gajipara, who lives in Morbi, called up Divya who identified herself as Kajal and said that she could arrange for a woman for Rs 10,000 for a night.
“Both Gajipara and Patel drove from Morbi and arrived in Rajkot in their car. At Morbi Road toll booth, Divya came to meet them. After collecting Rs 10,000, Divya got in their car and asked Gajipara to drive through a road into a village. The other accused were following the car of the victims on their two-wheelers,” said M C Vala, inspector with Kuvadava Road police station.
The accused waylaid the car of the victims by overtaking it. When the victims got down, Garchar allegedly put a knife on Gajipara’s neck. The accused threatened to frame the victims in a police case and demanded Rs two lakh from them, the amount of which they reduced to Rs one lakh after haggling. After taking Rs 6,500 cash and and a cellphone worth Rs 10,000 from Gajipara, the accused asked Patel to go and collect the cash.
“Once Patel was released from the clutches of the accused, he drove to the highway and called up the cops. However, before we reached the crime spot, Divya and Koli had left the spot. We managed to arrest Garchar and Makwana and free Gajipara,” added Vala.
The police have booked the accused under sections 365, 386, 342, 506 (2) and 114 of the Indian Penal Code and launched a manhunt for Diya and Koli.