Gurugram, Sept. 1 -- With extortion cases 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 on August 28, advocate Kuldeep Malik, along with two women 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 calls demanding large sums of money with threats of a rape case if he refused to pay. When the demands were not met, a sexual assault complaint was lodged against him on June 18. Officers said investigations are underway to identify other members of the racket. An RTI response accessed by HT revealed that between January 2020 and December 2024, Gurugram police registered 955 rape cases, of which 417 (43.6%) were related to false promises of marriage. htc...