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Three fake NGO members arrested for extorting animal traders, transporters

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June 15, 2025

AN extortion racket has been busted in which members of a gang used the name of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) to threaten animal traders and transporters at gunpoint into paying protection money, police said on Saturday.

- PRERONA BANDYOPADHYAY @ New Delhi

Three fake NGO members arrested for extorting animal traders, transporters

Three gang members—Ravinder Sharma, Pawan Kumar, and Mustaq Ali—have been arrested. According to officials, the accused intimidated traders by threatening to implicate them in legal cases related to animal cruelty. All three belong to the Pawan gang, which operated a well-structured extortion network targeting traders in and around the Ghazipur Mandi area, police said.

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