Youngster demanded Rs 50 lakh from doctor and threatened to kill him, arrested

Cuttack: 29 years old youngster had been arrested on the charges of demanding a ransom of Rs 50 Lakh from a medical Doctor and issuing a threat to kill him if  he fails to do so. He also claimed himself to be a Naxal and tried to extort the ransom amount from Dr. Shami Salim by threatening him to kidnap his family members.

The accused had been identified as Emroz Ansari alias Imran (29), is from Chaibosa district of the neighboring state.

Investigating officer ACP Tapas Pradhan told odishatv that he found a similar case where Imran made a threat call and demanded Rs 50 lakh from Niral Purty, an MLA from Majgaon constituency in Jharkhand. The police reached Barbil in Odisha on his trail, however they failed to track him down.

"After the threat call was received by the Cuttack doctor and Rs 50 lakh was demanded on the pretext of Naxal protection money, we started a probe. We found that the accused had used a SIM which was procured from (and activated in) Dhenkanal using forged documents," said Pradhan.

ACP further said that they had made special teams to track the accused after his sim card indicated the locations of Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj in Odisha and neighbouring Jharkhand.

He also added "After a mounting protracted technical surveillance and on basis of ground intelligence, we finally managed to nab the accused on February 1. One mobile phone and two SIM cards have been seized from his possession. Further investigation is underway to ascertain his links with any Naxal group".