PANJIM, March 4 -- Team Herald

The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Tuesday quashed the FIR registered against Kukesh Rauta of Odisha who was arrested for allegedly extorting Rs 5 lakh from Aldona MLA Adv Carlos Alvares Ferreira after creating his morphed obscene video. The Court also imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner and asked him to deposit the money in the Goa Police Welfare Fund, within a fortnight.

The Crime Branch police had arrested Rauta in December last year for allegedly extorting Rs 5 lakh from the Aldona MLA after morphing his face in an obscene video and further demanding Rs 5 crore from him.

Kukesh Rauta in his criminal writ petition (WPCR) had prayed to quash the FIR stating that he had amicably settled the mat...