The crime branch unit II officials have nabbed three persons for abducting another person on the pretext that he was selling illegal commercial cylinders in the market and forcibly extorted ₹1 lakh from him on March 15. The complainant was taking his LPG gas cylinder distribution vehicle when he was accosted by three persons in a car and two others on a two-wheeler.
They posed as crime branch officials and alleged that the complainant was carrying out illegal cylinder supply delivery by selling them in the black market. The accused threatened them with filing a police case and said that they would have to pay extortion money if they did not intend to go to jail.
They whisked away the complainant and his associate to an undisclosed location where they were brutally assaulted. They also took away their cash and mobile phones and called up their relatives and asked them to cough up ₹2 lakh as extortion for securing their release.
