New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) An Indian Administrative Service aspirant was arrested Wednesday for attempting to extort Rs.52 lakh from the director of a coaching institute in north Delhi, police said.
Manoj Kumar was arrested from the Kingsway Camp.
According to police, he was apprehended from the residence of Dharmender Kumar, director of Patanjali IAS Coaching Institute, when he was trying to put a threatening letter inside the building.
‘He was trying to extort Rs.52 lakh from Dharmender so that he could take admission to the institute for preparing for civil service exam and to meet the expenses of his sister’s marriage,’ said N.S. Bundela, deputy commissioner of police, northwest district.
The arrest came following investigations into a complaint by the institute’s director about having received four threatening letters demanding Rs.52 lakh, Bundela said.
‘Following this, we deployed policemen in plain clothes and early this morning at around 12.10 a.m., we apprehended him while trying to put a letter under the main gate of Dharmendra’s house,’ Bundela added.
