pune the city crime branch arrested a real estate agent and his three friends on the charge of attempt to extort rs80 lakh from a kharadibased it company owner after threatening to implicate him in a false case of firing two rounds at him in bopdeo ghat around 115am on november 26the agent asif khan 33 is a criminal on record and had lodged a complaint with the kondhwa police claiming one of the two men opened fire at them and fled we doubted khans claim as no empty rounds or gunpowder were found on the spot the cctv footage showed no assailants said senior inspector hemant patil from crime branch unit vpatil said we took fariyas pathan sameer shaikh and shahbaz khan into custody after khan was taken into custody he told police that he and his friends plotted the firing alibi to mislead the kondhwa police by lodging a false complaint