The local chapter of the Indian Medical Association convened an emergency meeting of members on Thursday evening, a day after masked man showed what police said was a toy gun to scare Dr S.K. Kundu, an oncologist who had received an anonymous phone call on July 7 demanding Rs 5 lakh.

IMA Jamshedpur president Dr Mrityunjay Singh said the meeting was called to condemn the incident and to demand security for doctors operating in the city.

“The doctors’ fraternity is in fear,” Singh said. “The criminals showed Dr Kundu a toy gun — the police have also accepted it, having seen the CCTV footage. The same gang can confront him with a real gun as well.”

The cops said they are on the job to crack the case.

“We have almost identified the criminals involved in both the incidents the extortion call and showing the toy gun,” said superintendent of police (city) Subhash Chandra Jat.

He iterated that there was no firing, but said the cops have established from the CCTV footage that one of the two bike-borne criminals was carrying a toy gun.

“No firing has taken place as such near a Baradwari nursing home. But still we are trying to trace those involved,” Jat said.

On July 7 evening, two bike-borne criminals had snatched a cellphone from the hand of a 15-year-old boy on Office Road in Northern Town near Sacred Heart Convent School.

Two hours after the snatching, Kundu got the extortion while he was attending a seminar at a hotel in Bistupur. He had complained to the police.

Jat said the cops were matching the CCTV footage of the snatching incident and the toy-gun incident.

“We have almost identified the criminals involved, though the footage related to the cellphone snatching is not so clear,” Jat said.