Chandigarh, April 30 -- Police have booked an unknown man, who claimed to be a close aide of gangster Rohit Godara and allegedly demanded an extortion of Rs.2 crore from a shopkeeper in Sector 20 by making threatening calls and sending voice notes on WhatsApp.

As per police, the complainant Harbalkaran Singh of Sector 20, alleged that a man who had claimed to be an aide of Rohit Godara threatened him. "He had sent voice messages demanding Rs.1 crore and later escalating it to Rs.2 crore and threatening to harm me and my family members," Singh said in his complaint.

A case under Section 308(4) (extortion) has been registered against an unknown person at the Sector 39 police station. Police are verifying the authenticity of the complaint....