Pune engineer dies by suicide after alleged extortion by fake police officers

Pune, Oct 16 (UNI) A 22-year-old engineer allegedly died by suicide after cyber fraudsters, posing as police officers, threatened to implicate him in a drug trafficking case and extorted money from him, police said. Shikhar Saxena, a native of Uttarakhand, allegedly jumped from the 27th floor of a building in Pune's Kharadi area. He was living in a paying guest accommodation and had joined a company in Hadapsar in July as an Advanced Engineering Analyst. Police registered an FIR against two unidentified persons at Kharadi police station on Wednesday, following a complaint by Saxena's father, Kumar Gaurav Saxena, 46. The…