Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

ASI among three booked for honeytrap, extortion

- Tarsem Singh Deogan

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.

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

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