Pramesh S Jain
One Kiss Rs.
50,000 Pre-School teacher among three nabbed by CCB
A Rowdy-Sheeter and a Pre-School teacher in Bengaluru were among the three arrested for blackmailing and extorting a city based businessman on tuesday.
The arrested are Sridevi Rudagi,25,who operated the Preschool in Mahalakshmi Layout;Ganesh Kale,38;and Sagar Morey,28.All three were from Vijayapura and knew each other.
Senior officer said,“Morey is a notorious rowdy sheeter in Vijayapura,” a crime branch officer said.There are a total of nine cases against him.”
Businessman Mukesh Vaishnav (name changed) had admitted his children to the play home run by Sridevi in 2024 when they got acquainted.
Sridevi had borrowed Rs.2 lakh from Mukesh, promising to return the money in 2025.When he asked to return the money,she offered him partnership in the school.
Meanwhile,the two got close and Mukesh even purchased a new SIM card for his conversations with Sridevi.
In January this year, he again asked her to return the money when she offered to give him anything to settle the financial deal. She even visited Mukesh at his house, planted a kiss on him and took an additional Rs.50,000.
Later,Sridevi offered to have a relationship with Mukesh and demanded another Rs.15 lakh.
When she kept making demands repeatedly,Mukesh got rid of the SIM card.On March 19,Sridevi called Mukesh’s wife and informed her that she would be issuing a transfer certificate for their children.
When Mukesh reached the preschool to inquire,Sagar More and Ganesh Kale were also present there.
Ganesh Kale then pointed towards Sagar More and told Mukesh that Sridevi was engaged to him and threatened to reveal about their relationship to his wife and Sridevi’s father.
Mukesh then said that he was unaware that she was engaged and told Ganesh that he had only taken Sridevi out for dining.
The trio then forced Mukesh into a vehicle saying that they should go to the police station,but took him near his house in Mahalakshmi Layout where they demanded Rs. 1 crore while threatening to reveal about Sridevi to his wife and then taking her away.
The trio finally settled for Rs.20 lakh and took Rs 1.9 lakh from Mukesh and released him.
However, Sridevi again called Mukesh on March 17 and demanded Rs.15 lakh while promising to delete their explicit video chats.She threatened to show the videos to his wife and disrupt his family if the did not pay up.
Fed up of the constant demands,Mukesh finally approached the Central Crime Branch (CCB) police who arrested the trio. Further investigation is under way.
