A former Dean of AIIMS approached Crime Branch saying that he had received a phone call in which the caller introduced himself as SI Dharam Pal Singh from Delhi Police and told the former that he had a non-bailable warrant against him and he would be arrested on the basis of the said warrant, said Ravindra Yadav, joint commissioner of police (Crime).
"Agnihotri insisted that the complainant should deposit the money in his account for which the account number would be given to him. The complainant realised that it could be a fraud call, so he filed a complaint," said Yadav.
A team under the supervision of DCP (Crime) Bhisham Singh took up the investigation.
Shahid used to work in call centres as peon.
"Shahid was friends with one Sandeep, who along with his associates was arrested by Crime Branch in a similar offence when they had tried to extort money from a prominent Kathak dancer with same modus operandi. Shahid had learnt the tricks of the trade from Sandeep," said the officer.
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