The dream of quick money, however, turned into a nightmare — first for three businessmen from Noida, who were abducted at gunpoint, ferried to Ludhiana, and threatened with false case before the whole story unravelled and two policemen and others found themselves at the other side of the law and booked under various sections of the BNS.

On the intervening night of September 15 and 16, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Kuldeep Singh and head constable Balwinder Singh, along with four accomplices, allegedly reached Noida, conducted a bogus raid while introducing themselves as senior police officers from Punjab, abducted the businessmen and demanded Rs 10 crore from their families as “settlement” for their release, as per an FIR registered at Khanna Cyber Crime police station.

When the negotiat

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