Probing into the nude video extortion racketthe operations cell of the Chandigarh Police has arrested six extra accused, all aged lower than 25.

Police had busted the inter-state racket on Friday with the arrest of three Rajasthan natives — Mubin, 39, Rashid, 19, and Ajrudin, 24.

Through pretend profiles of females, the accused would entice and induce males to get bare on video calls after which use their clips to blackmail them for simple cash.

Their six accomplices have been recognized as Ali Sher, 24, Satish, 24, Talah, 20, Shazid, 19, and Sahib, 19, all natives of Alwar and Bharatpur districts in Rajasthan, and Altaf,19, of Palwal, Haryana.

According to police, Ali Sher, a graduate, together with Satish and Talah, recorded the victims’ nude movies, whereas Altaf was tasked with arranging financial institution accounts, and Shazid and Sahib organized the cell phones for the racket.

With their arrest, police recovered 13 cell phones, three laptops, 22 Aadhaar playing cards, 19 financial institution passbooks, 13 SIM playing cards, seven PAN playing cards, two verify books, two ATM playing cards, one card swipe machine, a fingerprint impression on a plastic system and 66,000 in money, all of that are linked with the racket.

Used unwary villagers’ financial institution accounts to obtain extorted cash

Through additional probe into the racket, police discovered that the gang had been exploiting Rajasthan authorities’s e-Mitra facilities for the unlawful transactions.

The facilities are the single-window factors for supply of public and agriculture providers; and social welfare, health-care and monetary schemes for residents of rural and distant areas.

According to police, the gang, in connivance with the e-mitra operators, would use the beneficiaries’ financial institution accounts to obtain the extorted cash and would break up it with them. To function these accounts, the accused had even furtively collected the fingerprints of the account holders, mentioned police.