Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A private bank employee was arrested for allegedly extorting Rs 6.5 lakh from a 56-year-old man in Bhopal on Friday. The accused, along with his gang, set up his video call with a woman and blackmailed him to circulate their obscene screen-recording on social media.
One of the accused had posed as the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the Delhi cyber cell to threaten the accused.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Akhil Patel told the Free Press that the arrested accused has been identified as Asif Khan, a resident of the Hanumanganj area. He added that Khan is a relationship manager at a private bank in the city.
Shedding light on the details of the case, DCP Patel said that the man who was duped is aged 56 and is a factory employee in the Maida Mill area. On August 8, he had received a video call in which a woman was allegedly performing obscene acts. The caller screen-recorded the victim watching the video and sent it to him thereafter, blackmailing to circulate it on YouTube and social media.
On the same pretext, he made the victim transfer Rs 6.5 lakh to various bank accounts in Bhopal and Punjab. The victim approached the cyber cell on September 13, lodging a police complaint. Officials said that a hunt is on for the other accused.
