Second arrest in case of extortion call to Trinamul leader in Malda

The Malda district police made a second arrest in connection with the extortion call made to the senior Trinamul Congress leader and the chairman of English Bazar Municipality, Krishnendu Narayan Chowdhury last week.

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The arrest was made late Saturday night. Sources from the district police said the second person to be arrested in this connection has been identified as Wasim Akram and he was responsible for supplying the SIM card to the main accused in the case, Shahdat Sheikh, who made the extortion call. Sheikh sent a similar message to Chowdhury's mobile phone posing as Pradeep, a D-Company associate.

D-Company is an organised crime syndicate that was founded in Mumbai by notorious gangster Dawood Ibrahim.