Mumbai Man Sextorted With Video Chat By 'Facebook Friend' And 'Delhi Cop' For Rs 7.5 Lakh

A Mumbai man has filed a police complaint alleging that he was blackmailed by a woman and a man into paying Rs 7.5 lakh to them after making video calls to him.

The complainant, a 43-year-old resident of Chinchpokli in Mumbai said he received a Facebook friend request from a woman named Ankita Sharma on July 13.

FB friend makes obscene video call

Soon after he accepted the request, the woman made a video call to him and started undressing.

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Shocked by this, he disconnected the chat, but the woman called him again, this time on WhatsApp.

The woman once again started undressing and allegedly asked the complainant also to remove his clothes.

First demand for money

Though the complainant disconnected the chat and blocked the number, the next day he received a call demanding that he pay Rs 15,000 and threatening to upload the recording of his video calls on social media.

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'Call from Delhi Police'

The complainant paid the amount demanded by the caller, and days later on July 18, received another call from a stranger.

The caller, a male voice identified himself as Arun Saxena, who claimed to be a Delhi cyber crime branch official.

He informed the complainant that his video has been uploaded on social media and gave the number of another person, to get it removed.

When he called the third person, he demanded around Rs 2.5 lakhs to delete the videos.

Demands more money to remove his name from FIR

Days later Saxena called him again, this time to tell the complainant that the woman who he had chatted with a few days ago had died of suicide after her private videos with him were leaked.

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Saxena even sent him the photo of what appeared to be the dead body of the woman the complainant knew as Ankita Sharma.

He then told the complainant that the woman's family was demanding Rs 5 lakh from him to remove his name from the FIR for abetment of suicide.

Scared by the turn of events, the complainant paid the amount demanded by Saxena in three installments.

"The accused, who was calling himself Arun Saxena, told the man that the woman he had chatted with had committed suicide after her pornographic videos got circulated. The accused threatened to implicate the man in an abetment to suicide case and extorted Rs 7.5 lakh between July 15 and 18," a police official said.

"On the demand of the accused, he paid Rs 2.53 lakh to get all such videos deleted from various sites on the internet and Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the family of the woman" he added.

Police launches probe

The complainant decided to approach the police after the scamsters started demanding more money.

Based on his complainant, a case has been registered in Nirmal Nagar police station, but no arrest has been made so far.

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