India, Aug. 31 -- With cases of extortion on the rise in Haryana, Gurugram police on Saturday arrested three people, including a lawyer, for allegedly "honey trapping" a 67-year-old senior citizen in Palam Vihar by threatening to implicate him in a false rape case. The suspects were remanded to judicial custody after being produced before a local court, police said.

According to the FIR filed at Palam Vihar police station on August 28, advocate Kuldeep Malik, along with two women identified as Asha Verma and Kanchan alias Kritika, allegedly befriended the victim through missed calls and casual conversations. Police said the women later visited his residence, where one of them initiated intimacy. Soon after, he began receiving extortion c...