Five booked in Nagpur for extorting Rs 3 lakh from woman with job lure and obscene videos

Nagpur: A 19-year-old woman within the limits of Tehsil police station was lured with the promise of a good job. Obscene videos of her were then made and used to blackmail her, and Rs 3 lakh was extorted from her. Tehsil police have registered a case in this connection against Irfan Ali (35, Ratangarh, Rajasthan), Virendra Rana (40, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh), Nitin Jain (27, Dharmapuri, Madhya Pradesh), Kiran Mittal (37, Mohali, Chandigarh) and Payal alias Destiny (34, Panaji, Goa), along with their associates.

For the past few years the woman had been connected, for entertainment, with various social media platforms and education websites. Through these she came to know the accused Irfan Ali. Irfan asked her to use the Mika app on her mobile phone. He told her that he was a big businessman with connections in Uttar Pradesh politics. He also lured her with the promise of getting her a good job.

For this, he asked the woman to send documents online. Trusting him, she sent them. After a few days, Irfan began making obscene remarks to her on video calls. He also asked her to engage in virtual sex, and the woman agreed. At that time Irfan recorded the screen of the video call and made obscene videos.

On the basis of these videos he began blackmailing the woman. Threatening to make the videos viral, he demanded Rs 10 lakh from her. The other accused also helped Irfan. Frightened, the woman paid Rs 3 lakh to Irfan and his associates.

The matter did not end there. The accused used the documents given by the woman for various purposes. They also began threatening to kill her. Fed up with the harassment, she lodged a complaint at Tehsil police station. Police have registered a case under sections relating to molestation, criminal conspiracy, making obscene videos, threat to kill and the IT Act.

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