Pseudo-police gang that kidnapped businessman and extorted ₹5.26 lakh busted in Cyberabad

Key points

• Cyberabad police have arrested five members of a pseudo-police gang that allegedly kidnapped a businessman, impersonated police officers, wrongfully confined him and extorted more than ₹5 lakh after convincing him that he was wanted in a criminal case in Haryana.
• The accused were identified as Nagaraju Raghu Varma, who allegedly used several aliases including Karthikeya, Vamshi, Alluri Vijayaram and Karthikeya Singh, a native of Andhra Pradesh;
• Yeswanth Singh alias Rahul and Sathyabhan Singh alias Thakur, both from Uttar Pradesh;
• and Thangellapalli Nagendra Varma from Hyderabad.
• Two other accused, identified as Pradeep Kumar Mishra from Bihar and Sunil Kumar alias Fouzi from Haryana, remain at large.