Hindustan Times (Amritsar)

KARNAL NURSE HELD FOR EXTORTION, BLACKMAIL

- HT Correspond­ent letterschd@hindustant­imes.com ■

KARNAL: The Crime Investigat­ion Agency (CIA) of the Yamunanaga­r police have arrested a woman for alleged extortion and blackmaili­ng people.

The accused was identified as Seema, 30, alias Simmi, a resident of Gumthala village of the district. She works as a nurse at a private hospital in Yamunanaga­r.

Police said a person named Chetan Kumar filed a complaint alleging that the accused was blackmaili­ng him for the past four years and he had already paid her ₹4 lakh.

He alleged that now she was demanding ₹50,000 more and threatenin­g to file a police complaint of rape.

Reacting on the complaint, the police conducted a raid and arrested her with ₹50,000. Kumar said he works as a medical representa­tive and had met the accused in the hospital four years ago following which, they became friend and started talking on phone.

But few months later, she started blackmaili­ng him, he alleged. He said that she was mentally harassing him. The investigat­ion officer and CIA II in-charge, Shri Bhagwan, said that the accused was arrested and booked under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

During investigat­ion, the police found that the woman had married three men and later left them after taking huge sums as alimony from them.

VICTIM ALLEGED THAT THE WOMAN WAS DEMANDING MONEY FROM HIM WHILE THREATENIN­G TO FILE A COMPLAINT OF RAPE

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