Pramesh S Jain
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he Byadarahalli police on Saturday arrested a gang of five people,including a woman,for honey trapping and blackmailing a city-based civil contractor.
The arrested have been identified as Nayana and her associates,Mohan,Jayaraj,Santhosh and Ajay.
Senior officer told reporters,the gang would target people randomly by making the woman to call and talk to lure them.Using the Modus Operandi,they contacted with the 52-year-old victim and called him over to her place.
When the unsuspecting contractor visited her place for a date,the other gang members barged into the house claiming to be crime branch officers and caught the victim in a ‘compromising’ position.
The accused later clicked the pictures and video recorded the scene to be blackmailed before extorting gold valuables and cash from the contractor .
The accused took the woman along on the pretext of arresting her and escaped .
Initially the contractor was scared to reveal fearing that he would be exposed and later came to know that it was trap and approached the police .
Based on the complaint,the police track down the gang and arrested them under blackmail and extortion.
The police are further investigating to ascertain whether the gang was involved in similar offences he added.