ASI among three booked for honeytrap, extortion
LUDHIANA: Three persons, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) posted at Daba police station, have been arrested for allegedly laying a honeytrap for a 45-year-old realtor and trying to extort Rs 50 lakh from him.
The accused, identified as ASI Dharminder Singh, Manjit Kaur, 30, of City Enclave of Dhandhra road, and Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukha, a cable operator of Dhillon Nagar of Lohara, had videotaped the realtor in a compromising position and were blackmailing him with it. Police have recovered ₹7 lakh cash that the accused extorted from the complainant, besides a car and mobile phone used in the crime.
ACCUSED WOMAN CAME TO BUY PLOT
The complainant told the police that he had come in touch with
Manjit Kaur, who introduced herself as Gurpreet Kaur of Jawaddi Kalan, a few months ago. She told him that she had separated from her husband and was interested in buying a 100 square yard plot. She even borrowed money from him, citing financial constraints.
USED SPY CAMERA FITTED IN HANDBAG
On June 24, he, along with the woman, went to his friend’s office where she videotaped him in a compromising position through a spy camera fitted in her handbag. The next day, the realtor received a call from ASI Dharminder Singh, who asked him to meet him near a liquor vend. “When I reached there, the ASI, along with Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukha, who introduced himself as a scribe, demanded ₹50 lakh and told me that if I don’t pay them, they would circulate my video on social media and also lodge a rape case against me,” he said.
The realtor then paid them Rs 7 lakh in cash but later filed a complaint with the Daba police.
Police have registered a case under Sections 384 (extortion), 388 (extortion ), 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 166A (public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person), 506 (criminal intimidation ) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and Section 67, 67-A of the Information and Technology Act.
POLICE RECOVERED ₹7L CASH THAT ACCUSED EXTORTED FROM LUDHIANA REALTOR, BESIDES A CAR AND PHONE USED IN CRIME