Police mentioned the accused is hooked on medication and wished to grow to be a legal (File)
New Delhi:
A person was arrested in North Delhi’s Narela, near the Haryana border, for allegedly posing as gangster Neeraj Bawana’s brother and attempting to extort Rs 20 lakh from the estranged in-laws of a lady he was attempting to impress, police mentioned Sunday.
Saurabh Bhardwaj, 22, a resident of Jhajjar district in Haryana, had the household particulars of the girl’s in-laws and monitoring their actions each day, a senior police official mentioned.
Police mentioned the accused is hooked on medication and wished to grow to be a legal (“bhai”).
He received the girl’s cellphone quantity from a good friend. He launched himself as Bawana’s youthful brother “Pankaj” and gave costly items to her, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer North) Gaurav Sharma mentioned.
When the girl informed him she wished to speak to her mother and father about them, Bhardwaj requested her to not do it as his uncle had handed away. However the lady informed her household about it and so they visited Neeraj Bawana’s home and the entire incident got here to gentle, police mentioned.
The girl had informed Bhardwaj she was married to a person in Khera village however the marriage didn’t final as her in-laws mistreated her, they mentioned.
Bhardwaj made the ransom calls to the in-laws to impress the girl, police mentioned.
A police investigation discovered the extortion calls generated in Bahadurgarh in Haryana.
DCP Sharma mentioned the cellphone quantity was placed on surveillance and Bhardwaj was arrested.
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