NEW DELHI: The special cell of Delhi Police has arrested gangster Sunny Issapur — earlier incarcerated in Patiala jail — for demanding Rs 5 crore from a Vasant Kunj businessman. Cops have also caught his associate who was handling the logistics and arranging for names and numbers of prospective targets. A probe has revealed that Issapur was acting on the instructions of Canada-based gangster Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dala and jailed gangster Neeraj Bawana. Dala had also made one of the two calls to the victim, cops said. The businessman had got the first extortion call on August 16 from Issapur, after which a team led by ACP Sanjay Dutt and others started an investigation. It emerged that the complainant had received the threats through international virtual numbers. Through extensive technical analysis, cops found that one Sunny Issapur from Najafgarh, who had been recently arrested by Punjab Police, was behind the calls. Issapur was interrogated in Patiala jail and confronted with evidence, after which he confessed and revealed that his aide, Pushpender Lochav, was assisting him in making the extortion calls, police said. Lochav was giving him the tip regarding the victims’ business and other relevant details, including address, mobile number and vehicle numbers of the targets and their family members. “Issapur further disclosed that he was in direct contact with Canada-based fugitive Arsh Dala through a social media platform. Dala had also transferred some money in the account of Lochav in lieu of information about victims. Subsequently, Lochav was arrested as well,” DCP Rajiv Ranjan Singh said. Dala had an alliance with the Neeraj Bawana-Kaushal Chaudhary-Davinder Bambiha gang, which has rivalry with the Lawrence Bishnoi syndicate, according to cops. Issapur revealed that Bawana and his aide Naveen Bali were planning to eliminate their rival gang i.e., Lawrence Bishnoi-Kala Jathedi and in order to procure sophisticated weapons, it was decided to make extortion demands. Dala, who fled to Canada in July 2020, has been linked to multiple heinous crimes such as murder, extortion and targeted killings in which more than 13 FIRs have been registered against him. He has been allegedly transferring money from Canada to India to his associates to commit various crimes, cops said. An associate of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar of Khalistan Tiger Force, Dala is engaged in carrying out targeted killings and was allegedly involved in the murders of two Dera Sacha Sauda followers in 2020 and 2021.
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