Date:11/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/11/stories/2008071161860300.htm

New Delhi

Four arrested for extortion bid

NEW DELHI: Four young men have been arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from a real estate company director.

According to the police, Praveen (31) hatched a plan to extort money from Amit Jha along with his friends Neelkanth, Mohan and Onkar. The four made several threatening calls to the businessman and asked him to come near the Lotus Temple in Kalkaji on Wednesday with Rs.2 crore. A police team arrested them when the four came to collect the money.