Thursday, 10 April 2014
While talking, a police official confirmed that an industrialist from Hayatabad had received an extortion letter from an obscure gang. The official said they had the letter but no FIR had been registered as yet and they were working on it.
The general manager of an industrial unit of the industrial estate also received a similar letter written in Pashto with a demand to pay Rs2 million.
The police official claimed both men had been threatened of dire consequences if they refused to pay the amount.
The third case was registered at Bhanamari police station against a man identified as Rasheed, resident of Mohmand Agency, who called Muhammad Nadeem and asked him to pay Rs2 million. Rasheed threatened Nadeem, a resident of Dora Road, of dire consequences if he did not pay.
Muhammad Jan also registered a similar complaint with the Khan Raziq police. According to the FIR, Jan runs a business on Cinema Road and unidentified people called him demanding Rs2.5 million as extortion. The police have started investigating the case.
Like militancy and kidnapping for ransom cases, Peshawar holds the top slot for highest number of reported extortion cases in the province in 2013.
Published in the XReports.net, on April 11th, 2014 | Tribune
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