Three held for extortion

New Delhi, September 16 

Three persons were arrested from northwest Delhi on charges of extortion and posing as Crime Branch officials, said the police on Monday. 

Deepak Kumar (33) and his wife Jyoti (33), residents of Ghaziabad, were arrested along with Poonam Sethi (43), a resident of Shahdara, from Subhash Place, they said. The police said a case was registered on Sunday after a man reported that some people tried to extort money from him by posing as “officials of the Crime Branch”. 

Four mobile phones, two ID cards were seized, the police said. — PTI