Overview
- The Paharganj businessman reported that threatening calls and messages began on October 10, with a formal complaint filed on October 26.
- Threats initially reached the complainant’s wife via an international internet call before escalating to repeated ransom demands to him.
- A special team under the ACP-Paharganj used technical analysis of IP and call-origin data to identify the source and arrest the suspect on Friday.
- During interrogation, Ramzan Ali Hashmi confessed and cited personal debts and upcoming marriage expenses, having previously worked at the victim’s Naraina factory.
- Investigators seized two mobile phones and a Lenovo laptop, registered a case under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions for extortion and criminal intimidation, and are continuing inquiries.