India, June 30 -- The Delhi Police's special cell has arrested the wife of a Laxmi Nagar businessman and a 29-year-old gangster for allegedly conspiring to extort Rs.50 lakh from the businessman, assault him, and kill his mother, in a case initially made to look like a gang extortion bid.

The arrested were identified as Sapna Jain, in her 40s, a resident of east Delhi's Laxmi Nagar, and Rajat (single name) from Haryana's Sonepat, a member of the Gogi gang. Deputy commissioner of police (special cell) Praveen Kumar Tripathi said that police recovered mobile phones containing chats between the two.

The case came to light on June 14 when the complainant, who runs a wholesale business in Laxmi Nagar, received calls and messages from an inte...