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A city-based backstage steadfast employee, who booked an escort work online, was allegedly honey-trapped, and the accused extorted implicit ₹1.5 lakh from him.
Based connected a complaint, the southbound eastbound cyber transgression constabulary person registered an FIR against a pistillate charging her nether the IT Act and besides nether Section 318 (cheating), 308 (extortion), and 319 (cheating by impersonation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
According to the complaint, connected Friday, the unfortunate visited a website wherever helium came crossed the illustration of a pistillate named Anshi, who shared her mobile fig offering escort service. After exchanging messages, they agreed to conscionable astatine a edifice successful Koramangala, and helium booked the country wherever she came and met him.
After asking astir the services, the pistillate called idiosyncratic who introduced himself arsenic a cyber transgression serviceman and said that the pistillate who had travel to conscionable him was besides an officer.
The antheral informed the unfortunate that it was a sting, and that helium could beryllium booked nether applicable sections which could pull six years of imprisonment.
When helium tried to apologise, the antheral claimed that the charges would beryllium dropped if helium paid ₹5 lakh. The unfortunate negotiated and brought down the magnitude to ₹3 lakh. The pistillate aboriginal shared the slope relationship details and scanner to transportation the wealth online. The unfortunate transferred lone ₹1.56 lakh done galore online transportation attempts, portion the remainder of the transactions could not beryllium completed arsenic helium exceeded his transaction limit.
The accused allegedly aboriginal took a video connection of the unfortunate stating that helium had availed escort work and assured to wage ₹3 lakh. The accused near the edifice country informing that the video volition beryllium uploaded connected societal media if helium failed to pay.
The unfortunate shared his ordeal with his friends who suggested helium attack the police. The constabulary person launched a search.
