Tibba police busted a honey-trap racket and arrested 4 individuals, together with two girls, on Saturday. One of the members of the gang has but to be caught, the police mentioned.

The girls, as per the police, used to cease commuters in search of elevate and later threaten them to implicate them in circumstances of rape and molestation to extort cash from them.

The accused had additionally laid a lure to extort cash from a manufacturing unit proprietor, who approached the police, ensuing within the arrest of the 4 accused.

The arrested individuals have been recognized as Preeti Sharma, Babita Sharma, Rajat Sharma of Gopal Nagar, and Mohit Kumar of Karamsar Colony. Their confederate Bulbul is at massive.

The FIR towards them has been registered on the grievance of Nagendra Yadav of New Vijay Nagar.

Yadav, a cloth producer, instructed the police that he runs a manufacturing unit close to Puneet Nagar. On Friday night, he was going to his manufacturing unit on a scooter. Near Puneet Nagar, he mentioned, a girl stopped him and requested for a elevate, however he refused. However, the girl forcefully sat on the again seat of his scooter and requested him to drop her to Puneet Nagar, he talked about in his grievance

Yadav added that after dropping the girl in Puneet Nagar, he reached his manufacturing unit. Minutes later, the girl turned up there and requested the employees that she wished to make use of the washroom. On discovering her there,Yadav got here out and confronted the girl, who left the manufacturing unit.

“After a while, I additionally left the manufacturing unit and went someplace. Meanwhile, the girl returned to the manufacturing unit together with her male aide and created ruckus. She made a name to me after getting my telephone quantity from the manufacturing unit staff and began accusing me of harassing her,” said Yadav.

“The woman and her aid started threatening me with implication in a case if I did not give them 5,000. As I realized that the accused are members of a honey-trap gang, I reached the police station to lodge a complaint. When I was recording my statement with the police, I received a call from one of the aides of the accused, who identified himself as a police officer from Tibba station and threatened that he was lodging a case against me,” he added.

Police officers requested him to inform the accused to come back and acquire the cash and laid a lure. As the accused turned up there, the police arrested them.

ASI Sukhdev Singh, who’s investigating the case, mentioned they’ve registered a case towards the accused below part 384 (extortion) of the IPC.

The police are questioning the accused to understand how many individuals they’ve robbed by trapping them.

Not the primary such case

On June 5, 2021, two girls, together with their accomplices, had honey-trapped the proprietor of a meat store in Ghumar Mandi and robbed him of his automobile and jewellery in Dugri’s Phase 3. The accused had been demanding 5 lakh from the sufferer and threatened to make his private movies viral on social networking websites. The sufferer lodged a grievance with the Dugri police, who had laid a lure and arrested the accused.

On September 12, 2020, two individuals, together with a head constable posted in Moga, had been arrested for allegedly laying a honey lure to extort cash from totally different individuals.

On June 28, 2020, ASI Dharminder Singh posted at Daba police station, alongside along with his two accomplices – together with a girl, was arrested for allegedly laying a honey lure for a 45-year-old realtor and making an attempt to extort 50 lakh from him.