woman booked for sextorting navy officer
Mumbai, May 22 -- The police have booked an unidentified woman for allegedly blackmailing a merchant navy officer in a sextortion case on Tuesday.
Sextortion refers to cases wherein individuals are threatened into sharing their explicit images online, which offenders threaten to make public if victims don't pay up.
According to the police, the accused offered to chat with the complainant and sent him her obscene photos. The navy officer and the woman then video called on WhatsApp. The accused recorded the video call. The police said that the woman called him on Monday night, blackmailing to pay Rs.30,000 and threatened to upload the recording of their WhatsApp rendezvous on social media if he doesn't pay up. The officer refused to pay and disconnected the call.
He received a call from one of his relatives on Tuesday, alerting him that the recording of his video call is being circulated on Telegram. The police booked the woman under sections of IT Act.
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