The Noida Police has tracked down the movements and established the identity of the all accused persons involved in the alleged Paytm extortion. Sleuths has put the phone numbers of all the concerned persons under observation and the breakthrough came after police identified the brain behind this extortion plot, the Noida Police said.
“Three persons have already been arrested in connection with the case and now police is closely monitoring the activities on the Kolkata-based IP address through which the extortion call was made. The call was falsely manipulated to show that as if it was made from the Thailand,” the Public Relation Officer (PRO) to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Gautam Budhha Nagar police said.
Earlier, on the complaint of Ajay Shekhar Sharma, vice-president and brother of founder CEO of PayTm, the police registered the complaint under sections 381, 384, 386, 420 of IPC and 66 of IT Act against Sonia Dhawan, personal Secretary to the CEO, her husband Rupak Jain.
Both are residents of Prateek Lorial, Sector-120 Noida. Devendra Kumar, Senior Manager (Administration) is a resident of Surajpur Greater Noida and the caller from Kolkata Rohit Chomal isa resident of Radha Govind Nath Sarni Rajendra Prasad colony, Kolkata.
Police have arrested all the three persons, including Sonia, Rupak and Devendra. Police is interrogating Chomal after taking him under custody. The FIR states that Sonia Dhawan, who had been the personal secretary to the CEO for about ten years, and who allegedly had access to all the files related to the CEO, including those that contain financial data.
During interrogation the accused allegedly revealed that Sonia Dhawan and Devendra from Paytm sent the delicate data and asked to extort Rs 20 crore from the CEO. He demanded Rs 10 crore in the first installment to be transferred in his account in ICICI Bank. They all were tracked down and arrested. “Investigation has been expanded to ascertain whether more persons were involved in this case,” said a police official.
