SHAHKOT
The Shahkot police have arrested two criminals including a woman on the charge of extortion and dacoity.
Investigating officer (IO) Sukhwindar Singh said that the accused have been identified as Amandeep Kar alias Aman wife of Vikram Kumara resident of Mohalla Balla Ram Nagar, Bhatinda and Sanjiv Kumar alias Sanju son of Gurdit a native of Haryana and presently living at Mandi Gonianna in Bathinda
Jagroop Singh a resident of Zeera in Feroze Pur had complained to the police that he is working in loan section of HDFC Bank Moga.
He had said in his complaint that he had received a phone call on April 1 from a woman for loan purpose and asked him to reach Shahkot and he reached Shahkot and the accused woman took him to her house in Saliachan village where three women and men were already present.
The complainant had said the accused beat and disrobed him and clicked video with a naked woman and threatened him to share it on social media, and withdrew Rs 90 000 from bank by using his ATM and forced him to sign two blank cheques and kept him locked for four hours.
IO said a case under sections 308(6) (extortion by threat) 310(4) 310(2) (dacoity)304((snatching) 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) and 298(insulting religion of any class) of the BNS was registered against the accused and four accused including two women were arrested earlier.