Zirakpur businessman gets extortion call, FIR lodged

Caller threatens to upload objectionable videos of the victim’s wife and daughter

Zirakpur police have booked an unidentified person for threatening a businessman of circulating objectionable videos of his wife and daughter and trying to extort Rs 1 lakh.

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The complainant, who lives near VIP Road, Zirakpur, said he received a phone call with the threat and demand for money.

Zirakpur station house officer Omkar Singh Brar said they were on the trail of the caller and a case under Sections 420, 419, 384, 506 and 120 of the Indian Penal Code had been registered.