India, March 8 -- Ghaziabad A 29-year-old man has been arrested in Ghaziabad for allegedly attempting to extort Rs.2 crore from the family of a man, who was recently put behind bars in a rape case filed by his former 27-year-old employee.

Following a complaint by a woman, wife of the rape accused, stating that her family had been threatened over phone to either pay the extortion or her husband would be implicated in the ongoing case, police in Indirapuram registered a first information report under the BNS sections for extortion by putting a person in fear, etc. on Thursday, the officers said.

The FIR names two men and the ex-employee who filed the rape case on February 16.

The extortion complaint alleges that the said woman is actuall...