Extortionists arrested in Aizawl

Aizawl, Jun 26 : Aizawl police today arrested four members of a little-known organisation for trying to extort money from businessmen.

Police sources said four people--Laldinliana(35), Lalropuia(27), V L Thasiama (46) and John Lalhriatsanga(24)--who are president, general secretary, treasurer and secretary respectively of Mizoram Labour Association--had served an extortion note to the Small Industry Development Bank of India’s(SIDBI) Aizawl office on June 21, demanding Rs 50,000.

The branch manager informed this to the bank’s Guwahati office, which later informed the Mizoram’s finance department.

The finance department later informed the police, who laid a trap at the SIDBI Aizawl branch office.

When the four came to collect the money from SIDBI office, the police arrested them, the sources added.