NGO employee held in Delhi for Rs.18 lakh extortion bid
By IANSTuesday, June 8, 2010
NEW DELHI - An employee of a non-governmental organisation has been arrested in North Delhi for an attempt to extort Rs.18 lakh from a doctor, police said Tuesday.
Subhash Kumar Sharma, who warked for Beti Bachao Aandolan, was apprehended following a complaint of Sunil Fakay, who runs a clinic in Ashok Vihar in north Delhi, police said.
According to the police, Fakay ccomplained that some people were demanding money and trying to blackmail him on the pretext that they were conducting a sting operation in his clinic showing illegal sex determination test.
“They were threatening to ruin his career and get his clinic sealed and demanded Rs.18 lakh from him,” senior police official said.
The police said Fakay met the gang at Delhi High Court canteen where they showed him (victim) video clippings of some radiologists and doctors and scared him by saying that he can be put behind bars and the only way to save himself from prison was to pay them money.
The doctor had paid Rs.two lakh to them but Sharma demanded more. Investigations led to the NGO and Sharma was arrested.
“Sharma told us that he conducted four such sting operations in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and eight sting operations in Delhi in the last two years,” senior police official further said.
The modus operandi of Sharma was to identify clinics of radiologists where he would send decoy women customers for ultrasound.
“The decoy customer used spy cameras hidden in their hand bags. Later, video recordings of the same were shown to the victim by the male members of the gang headed by Sharma, who blackmailed the victims by posing as media persons with walky-talky sets,” senior police official added.
According to the police, Sharma is a graduate from Delhi University and also has a degree of Bachelor of Journalism. He has done a mass communication course from Himachal Pradesh University. He can handle cameras well.
After failing in many businesses, he joined the NGO Beti Bachao Aandolan and allegedly started extortion.
