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Jangaon: 2 fake Naxals held for extortion
The Jangaon police on Saturday arrested two pseudo Naxals who were involved in extortion, and recovered two cellphones from them.
Jangaon: The Jangaon police on Saturday arrested two pseudo Naxals who were involved in extortion, and recovered two cellphones from them. The accused were identified as M Bhaskar and N Prabhakar, both natives of the town.
Revealing details to media persons, West Zone DCP B Sreenivas Reddy said that the main accused M Bhaskar was arrested and sent to the central prison in 2015 for resorting to extortion. After he got released from the jail, he started a biryani centre in the town. He along with Prabhakar who is working in his centre hatched a plan to extort money from gullible persons in the name of Chandra Pullareddy Naxal group.
Bhaskar, who used to watch 'Youtube' noted some tricks on how to demand money with the help of technology. He chose WhatsApp and started sending extortion messages to politicians, contractors, businessmen etc demanding money from them.
The DCP said that the duo sent threatening messages to two Jangaon-based businessmen posing as Chandra Pulla Reddy (Batanna) dalam. The duo demanded Rs 25 lakh from them. Based on the complaint lodged by one of the two businessmen, police arrested the duo.
