Former first-class cricket player Robin Morris, who was accused of match-fixing by an international news channel last year, has now found himself on the wrong side of the law. Morris and four others were held on December 1 for kidnapping a loan agent from Kurla and taking him to Versova to extort Rs 2 lakh.

Morris and his accomplices allegedly kidnapped the loan agent on Saturday, November 30 from outside Kurla railway station and took him to Versova. Morris had applied for a personal loan of R3 crore at a private agency last year, for which he had paid R9 lakh as processing fee. The application was made through the loan agent, Shyam Talreja, 36, a Kalyan resident. However, the loan was denied by the company and Morris started pursuing Talreja for the processing fee.