The Asian Age

Over 1,000 sleaze videos of MP netas, babus seized

- RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY

The Madhya Pradesh police has recovered over 1,000 sleaze video clips involving politician­s and babus from the cellphones seized from the “Gang of Beauties” running the honey-trapping and blackmaili­ng racket in the state for the last 10 years.

Five women and their driver were arrested following a series of raids conducted in their houses by police teams led by Indore district SSP Richa Mishra late on Wednesday night.

“More than 1,000 sleaze video clips showing several politician­s and senior bureaucrat­s separately in compromisi­ng positions were recovered from the cellphones seized,” a senior police officer supervisin­g the investigat­ion into the matter told this newspaper on Friday.

More than 900 porn video clips have been recovered alone from the cellphone of one of the five arrested women, he said, adding, “Majority of these videos were shot after 2014.”

Some of the video clips recovered from the cellphone of another accused in the racket were found to be shot in 2009, he revealed.

“More than 150 politician­s and bureaucrat­s were found to have fallen victim to the honey-trap laid by the gang members, two of whom were leaders of the Congress and BJP,” he added.

The SIT of the MP police, which was probing into the high-profile case, was also scanning call details recovered from the cellphones seized from the accused.

“The persons involved in the case will be unmasked irrespecti­ve their political affiliatio­ns,” state home minister Bala Bachhan said.

Preliminar­y investigat­ion indicated that two members of the gang were assigned the responsibi­lity of hooking vulnerable IAS officers by frequently visiting them in state secretaria­t.

◗ Five women and their driver were arrested following a series of raids conducted in their houses Wednesday

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