Patna, July 4 (IANS) Two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators in Bihar have alleged that they received extortion calls from unidentified men, police said Monday.
Vijay Kumar Sinha, a legislator from Lakhisarai, said he got a call from a man Sunday demanding Rs.10 lakh as extortion.
‘The man used abusive language and threatened to kill me if I failed to pay the money,’ Sinha told IANS.
Another BJP legislator, Vinod Kumar Singh, also lodged a complaint against an unidentified man for demanding money.
‘I was shocked when I got the call two days ago,’ said Singh, a legislator from Pranpur assembly seat in Katihar district.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Alok Kumar said investigations have begun in the two cases.
Last month, the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MP Maheshwar Hazari alleged that an unidentified man demanded Rs.50 lakh from him and threatened to kill him and his family if he did not pay.
