Man hacks stolen phone, blackmails medico for sex

A formative years operating as a drone pilot has fallen prey to an attention diverter’s hoax when he was once riding his car close to RV College on Mysore Road. The accused stole his telephone and hacked it, and later started chatting together with his ex-girlfriend. He then blackmailed her to have sex with him, by means of threatening to add her nude footage together with intimate videos of her and her boyfriend.

The accused additionally demanded Rs 20 lakh to delete the footage. When the couple approached the police for assist, they shaped a crew of 10 policemen and managed to trap the accused.

The victim, Keshav Vijayam, 26, is a resident of Lalbahadur Shastri Nagar. After he lodged a grievance at the Kengeri police station, the police swung into action regardless of it being election effects day, and managed to save lots of the lady.

The incident took place on May 6, round 11.15 pm, when Keshav was once riding his car towards the city from Mysore Road. When he was once passing RV College, he spotted round three other folks, one of whom stopped his car and showed him a hub cap. Since Keshav couldn’t perceive what he was once saying, he were given down from his car to seek out the accused asking him if he had misplaced one of his hub caps. When Keshav returned after checking if all his hub caps were in position, he realised that his car keys were lacking from the ignition. Though he was once able to seek out them within the back seat of his car, he realised that his cell phone was once lacking from the sprint board.

Speaking to BM, Keshav said, “The next day I were given my sim card blocked and filed an e-complaint to record the lack of my sim. Then I were given busy with work but three days later one of my women pals referred to as me saying, a stranger had despatched her a chum request on Facebook and he or she had authorised it. But the stranger had began hard sex from her and 20 lakh as ransom. He threatened her this is she did not pay him the ransom, he would leak her nude footage and videos.’’

When the lady, a medico, asked for proof of the videos and footage, the stranger despatched them to her. Worried about the footage getting leaked, the lady right away referred to as up Keshav and knowledgeable him about the stranger’s demands. Keshav defined to her that his cellular was once stolen and that it was once being utilized by a hacker. By then, the accused had turn out to be desperate and critical, even sending lewd messages to the lady.

Keshav right away approached the police and went to the Cyber Crime experts. But as elections were on, they were busy. Keshav then asked his feminine friend to proceed chatting with the accused in order that he didn’t suspect that they were trying to trap him, and so they managed to bring down the ransom quantity to Rs 2 lakh.

Keshav filed a grievance with the Kengeri police on May 14. The police crew took the case very severely and on May 15, swung into action, regardless of a significant a part of the drive being deployed for election effects day. A crew headed by means of police inspector BK Shekhar guided the couple to name the accused to a location, at hand over the money to him. The girl told the accused that she had Rs 20,000 in money at present and he or she would pay the remainder later. The accused told her he would take cash and after she paid the overall quantity, he would delete the videos and footage.

The accused was once asked to satisfy her in a spot close to Kengeri on May 15. He stored the police on their ft by means of changing places to make certain that he was once no longer being tailed. But round eight to 10 law enforcement officials in undeniable clothes were waiting patiently, a few toes away from the lady. Finally when he got here to satisfy her at round 1 pm, he was once surrounded by means of the law enforcement officials. The accused was once then recognized as Raghavendra Singh alias Lovely Singh alias Lee, 19, a resident of Ullala Main Road.

During the interrogation, he told the police that he sought after to entice the lady, more for sex than cash. He additional told the police that he had stolen the telephone from the passenger facet, because the window was once rolled down.

Police said Raghavendra Singh didn’t have any pals and he labored on my own. He had failed his second PUC, but was once technically extremely smart and therefore have been able to open the lock and get entry to the entire data.