9 rowdies held, extortion bid nixed, say cops

A special police team on Thursday arrested nine history-sheeters from two separate places in Somangalam and Sriperumbudur and said it had foiled an attempt to extort money from a businessman. Investigators are now questioning the apprehended men to see if they any of them were involved in Tuesday's murder of a head constable in the area. Early on Thursday, based on specific information that that a gang of history-sheeters armed with weapons was planning to confront the businessman and extort money, a team led by assistant superintendent of police Rajesh Kanna narrowed down on five of them at Kattarambakkam, three kilometres from Somangalam.The arrested were identified as B Lenin, 28, of Nadu Veerapattu, Gopinath, 29, of Kasarangal, R Palani, 33, of Erumaiyuppu and M Ragu, 32, of Chromepet. A search of the Scorpio in which the gang was travelling when stopped revealed five knives. After interrogating the nabbed men, police narrowed down on four more suspects including Naresh Babu, a close aide of Lenin.Preliminary inquiries showed that the suspects had earlier threatened the businessman, who runs a scrap business, and were coming to extort money from him.

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