Amit Murkute, the 29-year-old member of civic body’s education board, yesterday received two extortion calls from an unidentified person. The caller asked Murkute to pay him Rs 10 lakh and warned him of dire consequences if he failed to comply.

Pay up or else...u00a0Amit Murkute received the first call around noon and the second call around 5 pm. The caller told him that he was phoning in from Jharkhand, but he had people in the city who were keeping a watch on him