Two women held for blackmailing college supdt in Sangrur

SANGRUR: Police have arrested two women for extorting money from a college superintendent by threatening to make public videos showing him in a ‘compromising position’ with one of them.

Police said the accused, identified as Ritu, 28, and Ajit Kaur, 27, of Sangrur had taken Rs 4.48 lakh from victim Harjit Singh, 55, superintendent of Shaheed Udham Singh College, Sunam, and were seeking more money before the police busted their gang and nabbed them on Friday.

Deputy superintendent of police (DSP-rural) Sandeep Wadhera said, “Harjit is single. Ritu contacted him and remained in touch with him over phone for one-and-a-half months. Thereafter, she called him for a meeting. He picked her up in a car from Ladda village and they went to Sunam for lunch. But on their way back, she convinced him to meet her relative Raj Kaur at her residence in Sangrur. When he reached Raj’s house, they made his videos in compromising position with her (Ritu) and started blackmailing him.”

The DSP added, “There are four to five women in their gang. They have been extorting money from aged persons for long. Police are probing the matter and other members of the gang will be arrested soon.”

The accused have been booked under Sections 384 (extortion), 420 (cheating), 120 B (conspiracy) and 506 (criminal intimidation) at the city police station, Sangrur.

The accused were produced in a local court, which remanded them in two-day police custody.