Pune city police have arrested two alleged cyber criminals from Bihar in connection with the suicide of Shikhar Saxena, a 22-year-old IT professional working with Accenture.

Shikhar had jumped to his death from the 27th floor of a building at Riverdale Suites in Kharadi on October 1, allegedly after receiving phone calls from a man posing as a police officer, demanding money and threatening to implicate him in a drug smuggling case.

Police have arrested Akashkumar Sanjay Singh (18), of Baikunthpur in Gopalganj district of Bihar, who posed as ‘Haryana police officer Ajaykumar Bhatiya’ while speaking to the victim over phone. Police also arrested his accomplice Rajkumar Sampurnanand Singh (20), from Barahat in Bihar’s Banka district.

Police produced both the accused before judicial magistrate (first class) B S Bankar on Tuesday. The court, which remanded them in police custody on Monday, extended their custody till October 31.…