An Intelligence Bureau (IB) sub-inspector has been arrested in Faridabad for allegedly being part of an organised extortion syndicate that used gangsters’ names to threaten industrialists. The case has raised serious questions about internal security oversight within India’s intelligence apparatus.
The Faridabad police arrested sub-inspector Sikandar, posted with IB, on charges of being a key operative in a network that targeted 8 to 10 prominent industrialists in the district. The accused were threatened through phone calls and messages made in the names of gangsters, with the aim of extracting extortion money. After his arrest, Sikandar was produced before a court, which remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody.
Police investigations revealed that the threats to industrialists were routed through foreign numbers, pointing to gangsters operating from abroad as the front for the syndicate. Sikandar’s alleged role was to gather intelligence on targets at the local level and pass the information up the network — a function that his position in a sensitive security agency made particularly valuable to the syndicate.
An earlier arrest in the case led to Deepak Goyal, a resident of Sector 9, who was accused of identifying and profiling industrialists and feeding that information to the syndicate. Goyal has since been granted bail by the court, though the police investigation against him continues.
The case has exposed what investigators are describing as an organised extortion and terror syndicate with both local operatives and overseas gangster connections. The involvement of an intelligence agency employee in such a network has been flagged as a matter of serious concern, raising questions about internal vetting mechanisms and surveillance within security organisations.
The Faridabad police confirmed that the investigation is ongoing and that further arrests are expected. Investigators are now working to establish the full scale of the network and identify other individuals connected to the syndicate.
