Muzaffarnagar, Apr 23 (PTI) Police have registered a case against unidentified men for allegedly making an extortion threat to the headman of Parasoli village here. The headman, Haji Ilyas Ansari, who is also the owner of a brick kiln, alleged in a complaint that he received a threatening call yesterday, asking him to pay up a sum of Rs 5 lakh. In similar case at New Mandi area here, miscreants demanded Rs 20 lakhs from a trader, Vinod Kumar, over phone and threatened him yesterday, police said. A case has been registered in this regard. Police said they are using call records to trace the identity of the miscreants in both cases.

Source: India Today April 23, 2017 10:18 UTC