Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 12 has arrested a man for allegedly demanding Rs 1 lakh in extortion from a mobile phone owner by threatening to make personal videos stored on the phone`s memory card go viral. The accused, a resident of Jogeshwari, worked with an NGO and was also a police informer.

According to police sources, the complainant is a 25-year-old software engineer from Madhubani district, Bihar. He moved to Mumbai a couple of months ago to stay with his security guard father in a servant quarter in Jogeshwari East. The complainant had been studying at an IT college in Hyderabad and working as a delivery boy in Mumbai to support his family and ease the financial burden on his father.