City in web of complex extortion rackets

"YOU will be shot in the chest, your work sites will be blown away by grenades," read a handwritten note dropped by two sharpshooters of the Dinesh Karala-Jitender Gogi gang at the office of a property dealer in west Delhi's Uttam Nagar area on November 7.

- UJWAL JALALI

The two shooters opened indiscriminate firing in an Om Vihar area. The bullets hit the glass door of the property dealer's office.

In the threat note, the shooters asked the businessman to meet Dinesh Karala 'Bhai' and also threatened that if he did not, "bullets would pierce the chest of the person found sitting inside his office and grenades would be thrown at their construction sites." Extortion has become the prime source of income of gangsters local or the ones sitting abroad. It is difficult to tackle extortion cases when gangsters are local and when the crime lords like Goldy Brar and Arsh Dalla are sitting abroad.