Brother of a notorious gangster allegedly threatened Karol Bagh jeweller to extort money
Brother of a notorious gangster allegedly threatened Karol Bagh jeweller to extort money
What do you do if you are being threatened by a people's representative who happens to be the brother of a
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| To the point Deepak Soni alleges that the MLA asked him to pay Rs 20 lakh to Soni's landlord. PIC/Pankaj Kumar |
dreaded criminal? Well, Deepak Soni chose to go to the police. The Karol Bagh based jeweller has alleged that the independent MLA from Najafgarh, Bharat Singh, has been threatening him on behalf of Soni's landlord RC Jain to extort money from him.
Soni says he was called by Bharat Singh on theu00a0 February 8, 9 and 10, asking him to pay Rs 20 lakh to RC Jain and Rs one lakh per month to Singh himself. "They asked me to come to Karol Bagh, but I sent one of my employees and a friend of mine to meet them but the meeting didn't take place.
On February 22, I was asked to come to Bharat Singh's office. So I went there with some of my family members including my mother and grandmother. They kept us waiting on the top floor of the office for two hours and his goons kept brandishing guns and live cartridges," Soni alleged.
"Later, Bharat along with RC Jain and his brother Anil Jain met me. Bharat said that he is the brother of Kishan Pehelwan and asked me to pay money, but I refused. On March 25, some goons came to my house and threatened to kill me and also flashed their knives and guns. They asked me to bring out all the cash and gold that I kept in my house. I called the police but they asked me to compromise. I also approached the DCP, Outer Delhi, Chaya Sharma but she too made the same suggestion," he alleged in his complaint with the Special Cell of Delhi police.
| The harried jeweller |
| Deepak Soni resides in F-17, 118 Sector-8 Rohini along with his family. After he was threatened, he had hired two security guards to protect him.u00a0 He runs a company, Deeson Finegold Pvt Ltd in Beadonpura in Karol Bagh area and he also supplies artificial silver jewels. |
Soni claims that he reported the matter to Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadwal, who forwarded the case to the special cell where police officials recorded his statement on April 12. A copy of the statement is with MiD Day.
In his complaint, Soni has alleged that his landlord RC Jain tried to cheat him in a property deal but failed.
Thereafter he colluded with Bharat Singh. "Earlier, we had a dispute over his rented accommodation and some property in Karol Bagh. RC Jain had allegedly confiscated the document of a property I had bought in Karol Bagh and was demanding Rs 20 lakh and was asking me to make him a shareholder in the building," Soni has said in his statement.u00a0
Despite our repeated attempts, Bharat Singh could not be reached for comments.
