Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)
Udupi, May 15: Six members of a gang have been arrested for allegedly blackmailing a man after clicking his nude pictures and threatening to upload them in social media if he did not pay them Rs 20 lac.
It is learnt that Sandeep (27), Bhagwandas alias Das (31), Gration D'Souza (26), Esha Kumar (33), Shyleswh Bangera (33) and Vijendra (35) from Bajjodi in Bikarnakatte Mangalore, have been arrested in this connection.
The gang had reportedly blackmailed Brijesh Y J from Yellur near Padubidri in the district to part with about Rs 20 lac over a period of time. The gang, which claimed it was in possession of nude pictures of Brijesh, which had allegedly been clicked when the latter was in drunken stupor. The gang members reportedly threatened to publish nude photographs of Brijesh in newspapers and social websites if he failed to meet their demand for money. Brijesh, who was very much worried about sullying of his image, wilted under duress and met their repeated demands, it is gathered.
The personnel of Padubidri police station, acting under the directions of the district superintendent of police and additional superintendent of police, have arrested six members of the said gang, and recovered from them Rs 25,000 they had recently collected from Brijesh, in addition to a Tata Indica car used for the crime, as well as cell phones. Padubidri station in charge, Rakshit Gowda, said that the police have already drawn up a plan of action to nab the remaining four members of the gang.
Brijesh said in his complaint that he had left Mangalore a year back, having been upset and fed up by these escapades, and started working in the jewellery shop run by his father at Yellur thereafter. However, the criminals got information about his whereabouts and called him over phone and threatened to expose his photographs if he failed to meet their demand for money, he explained.