MADURAI: Kodaikanal the city police have booked six other folks, including three television journalists and a print journalist, for allegedly extorting money from a international national running an NGO on Kodaikanal hills. Based on a grievance from the lady, the police registered a case and are undertaking an inquiry.
Police resources said that the six-member staff not too long ago approached Patti Anne Tower, managing trustee of Aeon Centre of Cosmology run by Aeon Trust at Pethuparai on Kodaikanal hills. The staff which additionally incorporated an worker of her trust, V Udayakumar, showed a photograph through which she was observed looking a monkey within the estate using a gun.
They threatened to post it so to carry disrepute to her. In her grievance, Patti Anne Tower stated that they demanded Rs 10 lakh to refrain from publishing the photograph, of which she passed over Rs 4.5 lakh on May 10. She claimed that the photograph was a pretend one and she had now not killed any wild animals.
Based at the grievance, a case was registered beneath IPC phase 147- punishment for rioting, 471-using as authentic a cast file or electronic record, 385-putting a person in fear of injury in order to devote extortion, 388- extortion by risk of accusation of an offence punishable with loss of life or imprisonment for lifestyles, and 506 (i)- criminal intimidation.
Police resources said that the six-member staff not too long ago approached Patti Anne Tower, managing trustee of Aeon Centre of Cosmology run by Aeon Trust at Pethuparai on Kodaikanal hills. The staff which additionally incorporated an worker of her trust, V Udayakumar, showed a photograph through which she was observed looking a monkey within the estate using a gun.
They threatened to post it so to carry disrepute to her. In her grievance, Patti Anne Tower stated that they demanded Rs 10 lakh to refrain from publishing the photograph, of which she passed over Rs 4.5 lakh on May 10. She claimed that the photograph was a pretend one and she had now not killed any wild animals.
Based at the grievance, a case was registered beneath IPC phase 147- punishment for rioting, 471-using as authentic a cast file or electronic record, 385-putting a person in fear of injury in order to devote extortion, 388- extortion by risk of accusation of an offence punishable with loss of life or imprisonment for lifestyles, and 506 (i)- criminal intimidation.
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