The MHB police on Monday night arrested a man who cheated people posing as a CBI officer, and his associate. After a 50-year-old woman complained, they arrested the accused for extorting Rs 50 lakh and an Innova car from her and her husband. The woman has founded a credit co-operative society and her husband is an LIC agent.

Threatened into paying
Police said the woman's husband was introduced to the main accused, Ashwini Sharma of Panipat, at a friend's office in BKC, where he (Sharma) posed as a CBI officer. Police said they kept in touch and one day Sharma called up the man, saying he had a complaint against his wife's credit co-operative society, and they would have to pay him Rs 50 lakh and give him an Innova car to settle the matter, or else he would kill them in an encounter.