Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
The Soladevanahalli police on Saturday arrested a 22-year-old youth and his female friend for honey trap and extorting money from a 26-year-old private firm employee after blackmailing him with private videos and escaped with 45 grams of gold valuables and cash on Wednesday.
The accused have been identified as Sunil Kumar, used to operate on a mobile date app posing as Divya and befriended the victim Hafeezulla Khan, resident of Kodigetirumalapura.
The duo after several rounds of chat decided to meet but on last minute Divya changed the plan and sent Lakshmi to meet Hafeezulla who was alone at home .
The duo met at the latter’s house and Lakshmi went out on the pretext of buying protection from medical shop and returned with Suneel.
The duo threatened and blackmailed him with videos before robbing gold valuables worth Rs.2.2 lakh and cash and escaped in a scooter .
The racket came to light when family members of Hafeezulla returned to find the valuables were missing and questioned him.
A detailed questioning led him to confess to the crime based on which the family members filed a complaint.
Based on the complaint,the police track down Sunil and Lakshmi and recovered the robbed valuables .
The duo was booked under blackmail and extortion and remanded to judicial custody.
