Four youths were arrested today for demanding money from their one time school teacher over phone at Hajarpara in Baksa district, police said.
Khagen Deka, teacher of a primary school in the locality,had been receiving phone calls from some unidentified youths
claiming to be members of the ULFA in the recent past.
The callers had asked Deka to pay Rs two lakh and warned him that he would be hurt if the money was not given.
The teacher had filed an FIR last week.
Police picked up the four youths, all erstwhile students of Deka, this morning and they allegedly confessed to the
crime during interrogation.
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