Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Yelahanka new town police have registered a case of extortion and blackmail against a rowdy sheeter and his associates for blackmailing a woman with the objectional photographs of her daughter demanding ransom.
The victim,in her complaint stated that the accused were using morphed images of her daughter and threatening to upload them on social media demanding money.
In her complaint the victim said that the accused rowdy-sheeter Manu alias Manoj alias Kencha who is presently lodged in Central prison of Parappana Agarahara had blackmailed her from prison in August 2023, through whatsapp calls and sharing the nude pictures of her daughter and taken Rs.40,000.
The accused threatened to share the images with the son-in-law of the woman if she failed to pay the ransom.
Fearing the consequences she paid the money to her associates but the accused continued to harass her demanding Rs.5 lakh more .
On February 9,the victim again got a call from Manu’s close aide Karthik and demanded Rs 5 lakh.When the woman refused to pay, the accused Manu made a WhatsApp call from the jail and threatened to upload the morphed images and videos of her daughter on social media.
The complainant also claimed that similar threat messages have also been sent to her daughter.
The police have stepped up the investigations to probe how the accused is accessing the mobile phones from prison, despite tight security.
