gurugram claiming to be notorious gangster lawrence bishnoi a man on tuesday demanded rs 5 crore from a citybased businessman and threatened that he will kill the 42yearold factory owner if the amount was not paid upafter the audio message and the whatsapp call around 130pm the businessman reached out to the police who began the probethey found that the caller was 28yearold akash who belonged to muzaffarnagar up and had lost his job at a different factory six months backakashs wife worked as a helper at the businessmans factory in the city until last month and thats how the two of them managed to glean information about the owner he was arrested from the basai chowk on wednesdayduring interrogation akash told the cops he had heard a lot about lawrence bishnoi over the last few weeks and decided to use the gangsters name to make the extortion call bishnoi currently in punjab polices custody is believed to be the key conspirator in the killing of punjabi singer sidhu moose wala last monthakash who has no criminal history thought he would successfully commit the crime in bishnois name said acp crime preet pal sangwan since the singers killing allegedly by bishnois associates a trend is emerging of petty criminals or those with an axe to grind using the gangsters name to drive fear into their targetson june 8 a former student who wanted to settle a score for not clearing the class 10 exam threatened his schools principal by identifying himself as a member of bishnois gang in farrukhnagaron tuesdays threat police said akash was planning to attack the businessman if he refused to pay up we learned that his friend had arranged a pistol we are still investigating to see if more people were involved acp sangwan saidakash was booked under ipc sections 387 extortion 506 criminal intimidation and the arms act2 men posed as bishnoi gang members arrested in delhidelhi polices intelligence fusion strategic operations ifso unit arrested two men who posed as members of the lawrence bishnoi and goldy brar gang for allegedly making extortion calls to a businessman in ludhiana the police said the accused also threatened the victims citing punjabi singerturnedpolitician sidhu moose walas deaththe two accused were identified as shakti singh 29 and afzal khan 24 both natives of bilaspur in chattisgarhdeputy commissioner of police ifso kps malhotra said on june 12 ludhianas cyber police station contacted the ifso unit and sought help in tracing the accused the case was registered on the complaint of a ludhianabased businessman who alleged that he was receiving threat calls from some unknown international and indian phone numbers the officer saidthe callers were threatening him to pay a ransom money of rs 10 lakh they further threatened him that in case of failure of paying ransom money his fate would be like moose walas the accused provided a bank account number too the dcp saidpunjab police had informed delhi police that the location of one of the