The attempts of two clean-up marshals to make some quick money by trying to extort two men at the Mahalaxmi railway station failed after the victims created a hullabaloo over the matter and drew the attention of passersby, who handed over the culprits to the Tardeo cops.

According to the police, 25-year-old Ajant Kumar Gupta, a resident of Mira Road, had just got down from a train along with his cousin Pankaj Kumar and friend Mohammed Anwar Bindu when the culprits approached them. "We were planning to go to Haji Ali Dargah. When we started walking on the footpath outside the station, two men came up to us and said that we were spitting on the road. I sharply reacted and said that we hadn't done anything of that sort. This made them angry. They immediately asked for R200 from each of us as fine."