Honeytrap case: Woman’s custody extended, cops to test voice sample

A Delhi court on Monday extended by four days the judicial custody of a woman lawyer accused of laying a honey-trap and extorting money from Gujarat BJP MP KC Patel.

Police sought four-day judicial custody of the Delhi-based woman saying that they have to record the her voice sample and have to investigate the case from other angles.

Later, police moved an application seeking permission to collect the woman’s voice sample to verify authenticity of an alleged conversation between her and a witness. The court observed that “voice sample cannot be taken without consent” and asked the woman if she was willing to give her consent.

Special Judge Hemani Malhotra then marked the case before a magisterial court, where the woman consented to give her voice sample.

During the proceeding, the counsel appearing for the woman requested the court to allow the accused to speak to her brother for a few minutes. After the court granted permission, the woman and her brother sat in the last row of the courtroom and spoke for over a couple of minutes.

The woman will now be produced before the court on May 12. Police arrested her on May 2 for allegedly laying a honeytrap and trying to extort ₹5 crore from the MP from Valsad of Gujarat.

The woman was allegedly dodging a Delhi Police request to record her statement and a medical test after she filed a counter-complaint in a city court, accusing the MP of rape.