JAMMU: Jammu police on Wednesday night arrested notorious blackmailer Amit Kapoor while demanding and accepting money from a government employee in Jammu. The complainant Avinash Kumar, an employee of Jammu Development Authority (JDA) lodged a complaint with the Bus Stand police that Amit Kapoor had threatened him to expose some documents to media if he does not pay him Rs 10 lakh. According to complainant, he paid Rs five lakh to Amit at Manda Zoo last month fearing that otherwise Amit Kapoor will unnecessarily drag him in media and this will damage his image in society. Now Amit Kapoor again started demanding Rs 5 lakh more from the complainant, regarding which he today lodged the FIR with the Bus Stand police. Kapoor was arrested from Bus Stand area along with the cash. Self-styled activist and convenor of the so-called Parents Association, the fraudster Amit Kapoor was arrested under section 387 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) under FIR 31/2024 lodged at the Bus Stand Police Station. According to police records, there are numerous such complaints against Amit Kapoor in the past few years. In 2018, Amit Kapoor had also faked an incident of an attack on him at Greater Kaliash area, which later proved to be totally baseless and concocted. According to police, FIRs are registered against Amit Kapoor at Janipur Police Station, City Police Station and at Police Station Peer Mitha. Police said, “Amit Kapoor’s modus operandi was to hold protests against schools, government officers and business houses in a bid to demand and extort money from them.” Jammu Police has appealed to all the aggrieved persons to come forward and file complaints against Amit Kapoor if any.
