Amul’s Managing Director, R S Sodhi has allegedly received an extortion call from a person claiming to be a member of the fugitive Ravi Pujari’s gang following which a probe has been initiated by the Ahmedabad crime branch, police said revealed on Monday.
According to crime branch officials, a person claiming to be a member of Pujari gang called Sodhi a few days back and demanded Rs 25 crore as protection money. The extortion call was made from an international number.
It is suspected, a computer software might have been used to divert a local call into an international call, said Ahmedabad crime branch’s Assistant Commissioner of Police, K N Patel said.
(With PTI Inputs)
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