JD-U lawmaker faces Rs 2 crore extortion demand

Patna June 2 : JD-U MP Sunil Kumar Pintu on Friday lodged an FIR against unknown persons in Patnas Shastri Nagar police station after he received several extortion calls.

The JD-U MP from Sitamarhi claimed that the callers have demanded Rs 2 crore from him or they would upload photographs and videos on social networking platforms.

"We have received extortion calls from three different mobile phone numbers 8709315423, 7856005589 and +9778821146528 in the last 10 days.I firmly believe that a number of people are involved in the gang who are making extortion calls.

One of the caller was a woman and she revealed her name Pooja Kumari," he said.Pintu further claimed that his social media account was also hacked and his photograph on the site was also morphed.

A police officer of Shastri Nagar police station said: "The preliminary investigation reveals that the calls were made from outside Bihar and it could be a handiwork of cyber fraudsters.They might be using internet calling facilities to threaten him.We are making efforts to find out the locations of mobile towers to zero-in areas.We are taking help of cyber crime experts and EOU to crack this case.

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