The mastermind of the ‘honey trap’ gang that used to extort money from people by trapping them in false rape cases, has been arrested, police said on Friday.
Jitender, 28, was arrested Wednesday from Mangolpuri in west Delhi. A total of seven people, including two Delhi police constables Manoj and Pawan, along with three pimps -- Neeraj, Vijay and <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Sunny -- and two women have been arrested in the case so far.
<span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Manoj was posted in <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the Mangolpuri police station, while Pawan was working with the Crime Branch. Jitender, under cover of being a police informer, started committing ‘honey trap’ crimes with his associates to earn quick and easy money.
‘He was running an extortion racket by luring innocent clients in his trap by using beautiful girls,’ said additional commissioner of police (Crime Branch), Ravindra Yadav. A case was registered in August this year at the Crime Branch police station on an extortion complaint of Rs.3 lakh against some police personnel. The victim was lured by a woman and her co-associate in Rani Bagh in west Delhi.
‘The accused posing themselves as Crime Branch officials detained the victim for several hours in a false rape charge and beat him up,’ said the officer.
They demanded Rs.6 lakh from him and succeeded in fleecing him of Rs.3 lakh following negotiations.
<span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Yadav said a woman gang member would take a client to their place and no sooner were they in a compromising position, then other <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">gang members posing as <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Crime Branch officials would barge in and catch the customer.
‘They pretended to arrest the client on rape charges. Once he came under pressure, they demanded <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">huge sum of money for not taking <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">legal action,’ said Yadav.
Jitender, 28, was arrested Wednesday from Mangolpuri in west Delhi. A total of seven people, including two Delhi police constables Manoj and Pawan, along with three pimps -- Neeraj, Vijay and <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Sunny -- and two women have been arrested in the case so far.
<span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Manoj was posted in <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the Mangolpuri police station, while Pawan was working with the Crime Branch. Jitender, under cover of being a police informer, started committing ‘honey trap’ crimes with his associates to earn quick and easy money.
‘He was running an extortion racket by luring innocent clients in his trap by using beautiful girls,’ said additional commissioner of police (Crime Branch), Ravindra Yadav. A case was registered in August this year at the Crime Branch police station on an extortion complaint of Rs.3 lakh against some police personnel. The victim was lured by a woman and her co-associate in Rani Bagh in west Delhi.
‘The accused posing themselves as Crime Branch officials detained the victim for several hours in a false rape charge and beat him up,’ said the officer.
They demanded Rs.6 lakh from him and succeeded in fleecing him of Rs.3 lakh following negotiations.
<span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Yadav said a woman gang member would take a client to their place and no sooner were they in a compromising position, then other <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">gang members posing as <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Crime Branch officials would barge in and catch the customer.
‘They pretended to arrest the client on rape charges. Once he came under pressure, they demanded <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">huge sum of money for not taking <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">legal action,’ said Yadav.