Bhawanipatna: In a shocking incident, a 24 year-old young man was arrested for attempting to dupe his father by posing as a fake Maoist and demanding Rs 35 lakh extortion money in Odisha's Kalahandi district. The boy was identified as Ankush Agarwal, son of Dinesh Agarwal - a well-known contractor in the area. He was nabbed over a week after his father filed a formal police complaint. The incident was reported from Rupra Road within Narla police limits.

As per reports, Ankush orchestrated a plan to extort money from his influential father by impersonating a Maoist. On October 6, he wrote a threatening letter posing as a Naxalite and left it inside his father's car. The letter demanded Rs 35 lakh failing which the entire family would be eliminated.

To build up pressure and ensure the p

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