Mizoram: ZNP worker arrested for extortion bid

  |   29 October, 2014   |   928   |   3980

The Mizoram Police arrested a Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) worker and his accomplice for threatening an Aizawl resident to pay Rs 20 lakh. The party, however, denied its involvement.



Jacob Lianhuapa (40), the chief organiser of ZNP’s youth wing and Vanlalliana (20), who has been living with Jacob for some time, were arrested by investigators late on Monday night. The ZNP stripped Lianhuapa of his position as chief organiser of the youth wing on Tuesday afternoon.



Investigators said Jacob called up S T Khama, a former ponzi scheme collector and one-time independent MLA candidate, on his mobile phone in mid-October and asked him to pay Rs 20 lakh to their “outfit”.