Rohtak, Feb. 12 -- Former Meham independent MLA Balraj Kundu on Wednesday filed a complaint with police claiming that he had received threatening calls and text messages from an unidentified caller demanding Rs.5 crore as extortion money.

Talking to HT over phone, Kundu said that he had received text messages and WhatsApp phone calls from an unknown caller, who claimed himself as a member of gangster Rohit Godara gang and demanded an extortion of Rs.5 crore within two days.

"I have written a complaint to Rohtak superintendent of police, Haryana DGP Ajay Singhal, chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, CID chief and other officials. This is an alarming situation that gangsters are targeting a former MLA and we can imagine how law and order has...