rajkot a 20yearold youth was arrested for trying to extort rs 72 crore from a rajkotbased real estate developer by threatening to kill three girls of his family the accused identified as paras monpara had sought the money to live a luxurious life he used to study with one of the girls whom he had threatened to kill said policeaccording to a complaint registered by the realtor kishor parsana his sisterinlaw sangeeta received a message on whatsapp on february 22 where the accused had demanded rs 72 crore and threatened to kill three girls of the family in the message monpara had gave some information about a one of the girls who is studying in ahmedabad parsana first called the girl studying in ahmedabad to rajkot the girl the accused had threatened to kill was already married and living with her inlaws while the third girl mentioned in the message was living in london uktalking to media persons rajkot crime branch inspector v k gadhvi said the accused monpara was studying with one of the girls who is now studying in ahmedabad they both were friends he added that when they first read the message they got suspicious that somebody who knew the family was behind the extortion bid when they traced the mobile number they found that the sim was purchased in rajasthan however when cops traced the ip address they found that the message was sent from a phone in rajkot the father of the accused owns a small factory the accused wanted the money to live a luxurious life since he knew one of the girls of the family he decided to target them said gadhvi