Cops to leave for Hry to nab kingpin, aides

A gang of fraudsters is using women to extort money from people by first befriending them on social media and then making their obscene videos. Investigations have revealed that the gang was operating about 150 bank accounts to receive the money extorted by their victims. Once the money was received, the gang used to close the accounts after withdrawing the amount from ATMs. The case came to light after a resident of Govind Nagar lodged a complaint. He was trapped by a woman on Facebook and later made his obscene videos and extorted over Rs. 29 lakh by blackmailing him. The crime branch arrested one Ashok Kumar of Haryana and Bhagwat of Mathura and sent them to jail three days ago on the basis of inputs provided by the arrested miscreants. The police will now go to Haryana to arrest the kingpin and other aides, including women members of the gang.