Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Sub-Editor)
Officials of the Central Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested two person for trying to honey trap and blackmail with fabricated, photos and videos of Chamrajanagar MLA Harish Gowda demanding ransom.
Based on the complaint the police arrested Santosh and his associate Puttaraju from Mysuru for further investigations.
The prime accused in this case was earlier arrested for running prostitution racket used the women to run the racket .
The accused used to collect details of his target and book the hotel rooms used by the VIPs earlier .
Using the room and women he roped in for the job,the accused would create a video with a woman who is part of their gang.
Using this videos the accused would call VIPs, businessmen and even professors and others threatening them with the videos and demand ransom .
Mr.Harish Gowda reacting to the media said that the accused had called many people known to him from his districts using two numbers.
The accused claim to have private videos and threatened to share with the family if the ransom is not paid,he said .
Based on the complaint,the CCB police have arrested the duo and seized their mobile phones and pen drive used for the blackmail.
Additional commissioner of Police for Crime,Chandragupta said that the duo was taken into custody while efforts are on to track down another person who is on the run.
The police are verifying to ascertain the criminal background of the accused .