He wanted to get back at his former lover, who had ditched him. But the path that 28-year-old engineer Bikramjit Singh chose was rather perilous and downright bizarre. The techie landed in police net while allegedly trying to extort money from a businessman to buy a gun to kill his ex-girlfriend's fiance. Not only this. The accused killed a woman and obtained her cellphone to make the extortion calls.



Bikramjit Singh. pic/subhash barolia

When the businessman approached the police, saying that an unknown caller was demanding Rs 15 lakh from him, the case came to light.u00a0DCP of crime, Ashok Chand said that the accused electronics and communications engineer is a resident of Paschim Vihar. He was arrested from Gole Market area where he came to receive the extortion money.u00a0

Chand said Bikramjit Singh told the police that he was in a love with a girl who works in his company at Gurgaon. Singh was earning Rs 7 lakh annually. His girlfriend duped him and got engaged to a junior whose salary had been hiked to Rs 15 lakh per annum by the company and was sent to the US. Bikramjit felt humiliated. He then decided to teach his girlfriend a lesson. He also hatched a conspiracy to kill her fiance.