Three held for trying to extort money from Goa PWD Min

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ANI | Updated: Jan 23, 2020 05:34 IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Goa Police has arrested three Maharashtra-based youth for trying to extort money from state
Public works Department (PWD) Minister Deepak Pauskar by threatening him.Pauskar told ANI, "I was receiving threat calls from Mumbai on
different occasions during the past a month
They were threatening me that they would defame and even kill me
I had ignored their calls initially, but later decided to hand them over to the police."The extortionists were demanding Rs 3 crore from the
minister, as per the probe
He said that the trap was laid this afternoon when they had sent these youths to collect the money."All the three youth were arrested at the
official residence of Pauskar today where they had arrived to collect the extortion amount," Panaji Police told
(ANI)