A 26-year-old delivery executive, who was once lauded during the Yuvraj Mehta drowning incident, has been arrested while his brother faces extortion charges.
Moninder and Narendra, residents of Knowledge Park, were arrested on Thursday. “The suspects were extorting between ₹20,000 and ₹25,000 from restaurant owners and handcart vendors,” the Noida police said in a statement. A case was registered after a complaint from one of the alleged victims.
Hindustan Times quoted an officer saying, “Following repeated complaints of threats and extortion, a case under Sections 308(5) (extortion), 352 (intentional insult), and 351(2) (intimidation) of the BNS was registered at the Knowledge Park police station. The two were nabbed with the help of electronic
surveillance from the Knowledge Park area.”
In January, a 27-year-old software engineer, Yuvraj Mehta, died after he drowned when his SUV crashed through a damaged boundary wall due to poor visibility. The incident took place in Noida Sector 150. A delivery executive, Moninder, said he jumped in to save the life of the man though he couldn’t find Mehta because of poor visibility, but Mehta kept shouting for help. Police stood at the scene but couldn’t rescue him.
According to India Today, a local court is scheduled to hear the police’s plea seeking custody remand of the two accused on Monday.
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