New Delhi:
Hoping to terrorise his neighbor, a 37-year-old man in Delhi allegedly planted a crude bomb in the businessman's car and threatened him of more such attacks if he did not give him Rs five crore.
Gyanender was arrested on Friday from Budh Vihar in the capital and police recovered a 'crude' bomb, raw potassium sulphide and a mobile phone from his possession.
The arrest came on a complaint filed by one Parmod Jain of Pitampura that he heard a loud sound of an explosion on the rear side of his car on Wednesday when he was going to attend his relative's wedding.
"He thought it as a crude cracker thrown by a mischievous child and hence did not report this matter to police. A day later, he got an extortion call followed by SMSes demanding Rs five crore," Romil Baaniya, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, said.
The caller also texted that he can cause more damage to the complainant and his family, he said.
After intensive searches, police found that the mobile number from which the SMSes were sent belonged to Gyanender who used to supply DVD's on rent in Pitampura and the victim was his regular customer.
"In this process he came to know that this family is into business and are financially well off and therefore he planned to extort money from them. He procured potassium sulphide and prepared two crude bombs," he said.
On Wednesday evening, Gyanender blasted the crude bomb by throwing it at the back of the bumper of Jain's car.
"Gyanender executed this criminal act after the recent incident of attack on the vehicle of Israeli embassy so as to capitalise on the terror factor," Baaniya said.