ludhiana its a gangster calling the extortion calls which gave citybased property dealers some anxious moments turned out to be an act of a labourer who got this idea from a tv show to make easy money and live a lavish lifethrilled with the initial success in extorting money from some locals whom he would make videos while indulging in activities like illegal construction or fights rajinder kumar 38 of bhattiya colony in salem tabri went in for big catchespolice said he zeroed in on some local property dealers after getting their phone numbers from boards at construction sites he even started asking for a sum of rs 30 lakh from them but his tactics went for a toss and he fell into police net after cops traced his location through his mobile phone the accused at first had used a stolen mobile phone to make calls and then procured another sim card from uttar pradesh for the purposethe police on saturday arrested rajinder and seized sim card his phone two spy cameras pen drive card readers microchips and 10 cds containing videos of some of his victimsaccording to police the accused used to make videos of people using spy cameras and then extort money by blackmailing them assistant commissioner of police investigation surinder mohan said the accused was arrested from his house on saturday during questioning rajinder disclosed that he used to get contact details of property dealers from boards installed at their offices and coloniesin november the police had received 12 complaints from property dealers who had claimed to received extortion calls from gangsters like sukha kahlwan and sukha barewalia demanding a huge sum of money the accused used stolen sim cards to make extortion calls initially he used a sim card registered in the name of a resident belonging to jalalabad when police traced the man he told police that he had lost his phone on the way to a shrine in himachal pradesh and he had also filed a missing report at a police station in the meantime the accused changed his sim card that he had procured from uttar pradesh an investigating official said additional deputy commissioner of police crime ratan singh brar said the accused was a school dropout but he was well versed with computers and information technologyhe used to roam around the city to spot illegal activities including illegal construction work fights or commercial use of domestic cooking cylindershe would videograph the activity to further blackmail people those who paid him small amount between rs 5000 to rs 10000 never lodged a complaint against him the police had registered a case against the unidentified caller under sections 386 extortion and 506 criminal intimidation of ipc