Lucknow: A resident of Sushant Golf City was honey trapped and blackmailed by a woman and her aides posing as STF and CBI sleuths, on the pretext of his morphed photos/videos in a compromising state with her. The case came to light when the victim went to a bank to seek loan to pay the extortion money.
“He spilled the beans when during the application process for the loan, the bank officials coaxed him into revealing the purpose to seek the loan,” said police.
Thereafter, the victim lodged an FIR on Wednesday.
It all started when the victim got a friend request on Facebook from an unidentified woman on July 20. He inadvertently accepted the friend request. They both later exchanged their photos and family photos and their WhatsApp number.
On July 21, the woman made a video call during day hours and later in the night also.
In one of the video calls that the victim received, the woman started undressing and lured him also to undress.
“In excitement, when I got undressed, she captured my photos and made a film of my naked state. The photos and film were later mixed with her nude photos and a video film/ photo was formed on the mobile phone,” the victim said.
He said that the woman started blackmailing her saying she would share his obscene videos and photos to the group. “I paid Rs 25,000 to her in a bank account which she shared with me on WhatsApp,” he said.
The victim’s ordeal did not end there. On July 24, an unidentified man introducing himself as a police inspector, Vikram Goswami called him up and informed him about a YouTuber who was uploading obscene videos of the victim. He gave him the YouTuber’s mobile number to settle the issue.
The so-called inspector warned the victim of sending an STF team to get him arrested also. The perplexed victim talked to the YouTuber, Kushal Dhami, and paid him Rs 3 lakh for deleting the obscene video.
When the victim thought his tribulation was over, the inspector called the victim on July 25 and informed that the woman at the centre of the dispute had ended her life by jumping off from the third floor of her house. He told the victim that the issue had reached higher-ups in the police, including the DIG.
He told the victim that it would require Rs 12 lakh for managing the issue as the woman’s family were demanding compensation. The victim could arrange Rs 10.5 lakh which he gave to the miscreants.
Hardly had the victim taken a sigh of relief that he got a call from a man who introduced himself as CBI officer Gopal Mehrotra. He told the victim that the woman’s death by suicide was a case of murder and the victim had transferred money to her bank account, so he was also under the radar.
“The so-called CBI officer abused me and threatened to put me behind bars if I did not confess to the crime and tell him the truth. After hearing my story, he demanded Rs 1 lakh to settle the case. It was paid, but, again he demanded Rs 10 lakh. I was exhausted now and so reached the bank for a loan and later lodged a complaint,” he said.
