New Delhi: Police have arrested a man who used to extort money after recording obscene video of victims.
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 complained in this regard.
He said that he works as a manager in a nationalized 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 Messenger.
The woman claimed to be a widow and a working one. Once she showed an urgent need for 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. The 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 the pretext of deleting his obscene video and not uploading it on YouTube,” the official added.
Based on this, the police lodged an FIR under section 384, 419, 420 120B, and 34 of the IPC.
During the investigation, the police collected all the relevant information, including CDR, Facebook details, account details, and Whatsapp chat. After deep analysis and technical equipment, 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, and mobile phones from West Bengal and managed the fraudulent bank accounts with the help of other co-accused persons. To threaten the victim, they used to make calls from fraudulent phone numbers.
