How Haryana Man Ran Sextortion Racket, Posed As Cop To Pocket Lakhs

Posing as a cop Mahendra would call the victim and demand money to delete the video.

Delhi police today arrested the mastermind in a sextortion racket who had blackmailed several people across the country. Mahendra Singh, who was caught in Haryana's Mewat, had been running the scam for the last few years.

They came under the police radar after a Delhi man lodged a complaint that he was being blackmailed. The man had first received a call from a woman who agreed to an intimate video call with the victim.

Posing as a cop, ACP Ram Pandey, Mahendra then called the victim and demanded money to delete the video. He demanded Rs 9 lakh from the man with a promise of deleting the video, in which the victim was naked, police said.