India, Oct. 14 -- What began as a BJP MLA's complaint about a threatening woman trying to extort him ended in a startling twist - the 'woman' was actually a 26-year-old unemployed man from Kolhapur with an unusual talent: mimicking female voices.

Shivaji Patil, the 55-year-old BJP MLA from Chandgad, had approached the Chitalsar police in Thane on October 9, claiming that an unknown woman was threatening to leak "obscene" chats and videos unless he paid Rs.5-10 lakh.

But when the police cyber team began tracing call records and bank details, the seductress' identity crumbled.

The alleged mastermind was identified as Mohan Jyotiba Pawar, a jobless youth from a farmer's family who had recently completed his BSc and had been unemployed for...