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  • 2 Delhi policemen suspended for running sextortion racket

    2 Delhi policemen suspended for running sextortion racket

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    New Delhi: A Delhi Police Head Constable and a Constable have been placed under suspension after they were allegedly found running sextortion racket with the help of a girl who used to trap boys through a dating app.

    According to the information, a departmental inquiry has been initiated against the accused police personnel, identified as Constable Ankit posted at Nihal Vihar police station and Head Constable Mukesh posted with the PCR unit.

    They had taken a room on rent where the girl would bring the victim boy, and later they would extort money from him.

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    A source said that on April 17, they got a PCR call regarding extortion by two police personnel. After receiving the call, a team was sent to record the testimony of the victim, a resident of Gurugram.

    “The victim was terrified. He was with three of his friends. He told the police that he met a girl through dating app, Bumble. Both had been in touch for a week. The girl took him to a room where Rs 27,000 Rs were extored from him,” the source said.

    According to the police report accessed by IANS, the girl called Pandey to meet her at Peera Garhi crossing on April 16. Later, the girl took him to her room by e-rickshaw in ShivRam Park, Nihal Vihar which was allegedly taken on rent by the accused police personnel to trap boys.

    “The accused police personnel reached over there (the room). They told the boy that they received a PCR call that he had done something wrong with the girl. The victim was threatened that strict action would be taken against him. Later, they demanded money to sort out the matter,” the source said.

    The accused police personnel took Rs 27,000 from the victim. They also threatened the boy not to disclose the incident to anyone, else they would implicate him in a false rape case, the report noted.

    On enquiry, it was also found that both police personnel were in touch with the girl involved in the matter.

    “Later, the victim narrated the incident to his friends and made a PCR call out of fear of being implicated in a false case. The act of the accused police personnel constituted gross misconduct, indiscipline, negligence towards their duties and also diminishing the image of Delhi Police,” the report reads.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Delhi: Sextortion racket busted by police, 1 held

    Delhi: Sextortion racket busted by police, 1 held

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    New Delhi: A man who used to extort money after recording obscene video of victims was held by the Delhi Police.

    Akash Kaushal, Additional Deputy Commissioner, West Delhi Police, said that the accused was identified as Abdul. His aides are absconding. They only played video of a girl using another mobile and would record it to extort money.

    The police official added that on March 23, a man lodged a complaint in this regard.

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    He said that he works as a manager in a nationalised bank and had been running a Facebook account. Nearly one month back, he accepted a friend request from a female ID and they started chatting on the Messenger.

    The woman claimed to be a widow and working one. Once she showed urgent need of funds and the complainant paid her Rs 3,000 in two online transactions.

    “Victim had displayed his mobile number on his Facebook account and he received normal messages from her. On March 19, the victim received a video call from that girl’s mobile number in which she removed her clothes. Next day the victim received a call from a fraudster posing as a police officer who directed the victim to speak to another fraudster purported to be from YouTube. They extorted 11,93,000 from the victim on pretext of deleting his obscene video and not uploading it on YouTube,” the official added.

    On the basis of this the police lodged an FIR under sections 384, 419, 420 120B, 34 of the IPC.

    During investigation, the police collected all the relevant information, including CDR, Facebook details, account details and Whatsapp chat. After deep analysis and through technical equipments, several raids were conducted. Finally after painstaking efforts the accused Abdul was arrested.

    On his insistence, two mobile phones and sim cards each used in committing the offence were recovered.

    “Abdul disclosed that he along with his brother-in-law used to make Whatsapp video call to victims and play video of a naked woman using a second mobile phone and then they used to provoke the victim to do the same and would record the screen,” the police said.

    To commit the offence they purchased SIM cards, mobile phones from West Bengal and managed the fraud bank accounts with the help of other co-accused persons. To threaten the victim, they used to make calls from fraud phone numbers.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )