Summary:
He told him that two senior officials were blackmailing him and he also provided the senior cop with two BSNL numbers to Chauhan. The accused has been identified as Brajbhan Singh , a resident of Amethi.During interrogation, Singh revealed that the calls were made using a call-spoofing mobile application. But on inquiry, it was found that those numbers were not in use by the officers.Subsequently, a trap was laid by the police and when a man approached Kamil to take the delivery he was nabbed. Kamil was told to deliver the package of cash, a mobile phone, and a box of sweets to a designated person outside the SSP office on Monday morning.Meanwhile, following a tip-off by an informer, CO (Modinagar) Dharmendra Chauhan approached Kamil and asked him about the extortion calls. Brajbhan said he had got instructions from two convicts — Atul and Devender — currently lodged in a jail in Basti to collect the money from Kamil.Police suspect the calls could have originated from Basti jail itself.“Kamil had spent some time in Basti jail last year and was locked in the same barrack with Atul and Devender..