'Naxal' arrested for threatening businessman

A man posing as a Naxal of Jana Shakthi group was today arrested for allegedly threatening and demanding ransom from a businessman, police said.
Sleuths of Special Operation Team (Cyberabad East), on credible information, nabbed the fake extremist R Shekar Naik, a resident of Karmanghat.
He had been threatening one businessman, Secretary of a pharmacy college, by claiming him to be one Jagan from Jana Shakthi Group of extremists, they said.
Naik would regularly call the businessman from coin operated public booths and demand payment of money. He would warn of dire consequences if the businessman failed to pay up, a police release said.

On a complaint lodged by the businessman, a case was registered at Meerpet Police Station.
A close watch was kept in Meerpet area and Naik was nabbed when he telephoned the complainant and threatened, it added.