Mewat-based sextortion gang busted by Delhi Police

Mar 29, 2023

New Delhi, March 29 (ANI): With the arrest of criminals, Delhi Police has busted a sextortion gang involved in extorting money from victims. The gang includes kingpin Rahul Khan along with Armaan and Azad as his associates. All the accused persons were involved in extorting victims by making their obscene videos through WhatsApp video calls and circulating them over social media. For this, they used to search victims on apps like Friend Search Tool 2022 and Friend Search for Chat: Girl. After that, the gang members used extort money from victims. In this way, they extorted more than 40 lakh rupees from many victims. Recently, Delhi Police received a complaint from a person regarding this case. The complainant alleged that he had transferred more than 13 lakhs rupees to the cheater's bank account due to pressure. In this regard, Delhi Police constituted a team. After analysing CDR details and technical evidence, police conducted several raids in Bharatpur and Alwar districts and apprehended 3 adult accused persons and 2 CCLs. Further, Police recovered 6 mobile phones, 7 sim cards and other materials used in the commission of the crime. During interrogation, accused persons revealed that they used to target older age people as many of them were reluctant to give a complaint.