Noida, Aug 16 (PTI) Three young men were arrested Monday for allegedly extorting money from street-side vendors at a market in Noida, police said.

The accused had been intimidating and threatening to harm the vendors at the Sector 117 market who did not pay them money, the officials said.

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"An FIR was lodged in the case at Sector 49 police station on the basis of a complaint by some vendors and the accused arrested today," a police spokesperson said.

Those arrested have been identified as Vipin Yadav (20) alias Fidda Pehelwan and his aides Vijay (18) and Omvir Yadav (22), the spokesperson said.

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The trio has been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 384 (extortion) and 504 (provoke breach of public peace), the police added.

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