The accused in police custody in the city on Sunday
JAIPUR: Jawahar Nagar police on Sunday arrested a 40-year-old man and his 19-year-old girlfriend for sending a fake bomb concealed in a cake to a garment trader in Raja Park as a threat to extort Rs 10 lakh.
Police identified the accused as Anish Ahmad and Suhaliya for plotting an extortion bid in order to clear their debts. Police said Ahmad knew garment trader Vibhu Gupta and worked as a staffer in his shop located at Panchvati Circle in Raja Park. Investigators claimed that Ahmad’s prior experience as an electrician came in handy while designing a ‘dummy bomb,’ which was a scare tactic to extort money from the trader.
“The had accumulated a lot of debts and thought that Gupta would be an easy target if he could be scared into paying him some hefty amount,” an official said.
The incident had taken place on Friday afternoon when an e-rickshaw driver delivered the cake in a box at Gupta’s shop.
When Gupta opened the suspicious box, he saw some wires jutting out of it and a note asking him to travel in the same rickshaw with Rs 8 to Rs 10 lakh. The letter also threatened that if he failed to pay, the bomb would explode. Shaken after reading it, Gupta refused to take delivery of the box and returned it to the driver. The driver then took the cake home and found a digital watch, batteries and wires inside it.
He panicked and threw it near a culvert. Police on Saturday early morning recovered the box and detained the driver, he told cops that a woman had paid him Rs 50 to deliver the box to Gupta’s store Police said the device did not have any explosives or detonators but contained small batteries and a few nails. Police then constituted a special team led by SHO Panna Lal to track down the woman and unearthed the entire conspiracy.
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