KATHMANDU, Nov. 19 -- Police have arrested a man from Siraha who allegedly made an obscene video of a woman and started blackmailing her for sex.

A team of police deployed from the Area Police Office, Kalyanpur, apprehended 20-year-old Ajay Mahara from Kalyanpur Municipality-4 on the charge of making an obscene video of a 22-year-old woman.

According to a press release issued by Nepal Police headquarters, Mahara filmed the video of a sexual intercourse between the woman and one 23-year-old Jitan Ram, a resident of the same municipality, and started blackmailing her for sex by showing her the same video.

Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Mahara recently.

Jitan Ram, the other accused of the case, is still at large and police have lau...