School dropout blackmails Mumbai woman using intimate chat for extortion | India News
MUMBAI: On Thursday, after conducting a day-long search in a forest located in Assam‘s Sonitpur, the MIDC police team
MUMBAI: On Thursday, after conducting a day-long search in a forest located in Assam‘s Sonitpur, the MIDC police team successfully apprehended a 23-year-old man. The suspect, identified as Dildar Hussain Ali, had been accused of recording a nude video of a victim from Andheri (East) and subsequently using it to extort money. Upon the police team’s arrival in the village on Tuesday, approximately 2500 people gathered, seemingly attempting to aid Ali‘s escape.The accused extorted at least Rs 1 lakh from the victim in the last one year after he created a fakeInstagram account and posted the video on it to blackmail her.
Despite being a school dropout Ali knew how to use technology to record screenshots from the WhatsApp Video Call which he did after making the 20-year-old victim, a graduate, undress in front of the video call. “Initially, the police team was in a dilemma about where to head first on tracking his location which was shown in Assam and Kerala. The team then decided to head to Assam from where Ali was arrested after a day-long search of the jungle,” said a police officer of the MIDC police station.
The case was registered on November 30 after the victim, employed in a firm in Andheri-Seepz, was fed up with the frequent blackmailing and harassment from the accused who used to make her transfer money to his bank account. In the complaint, the victim said: “The blackmailing began after I rejected his marriage proposal when I learned that the accused whom I befriended on social media as Dildar Khan is a school dropout and unemployed. This annoyed him and started posting the video screenshot which he recorded that he captured during our intimate chats.”
Taking the complaint seriously, DCP (Zone X) Datta Nalawade supervised the team–ACP Dr Shashikant Bhosale, MIDC police senior inspector Satish Gaikwad, inspector Tukaram Koyande, sub-inspector Pramod Khotwad and staff–that tracked the accused to Assam. “Ali’s parents took the villagers’ help to get him to escape on learning that the police team had arrived in Assam to arrest him. Around 2500 villagers gathered outside Ali’s house. The team took the superintendent of police’s help in Assam to comb out the entire jungle which lasted over 12 hours before he was nabbed,” said a police officer.
Despite being a school dropout Ali knew how to use technology to record screenshots from the WhatsApp Video Call which he did after making the 20-year-old victim, a graduate, undress in front of the video call. “Initially, the police team was in a dilemma about where to head first on tracking his location which was shown in Assam and Kerala. The team then decided to head to Assam from where Ali was arrested after a day-long search of the jungle,” said a police officer of the MIDC police station.
The case was registered on November 30 after the victim, employed in a firm in Andheri-Seepz, was fed up with the frequent blackmailing and harassment from the accused who used to make her transfer money to his bank account. In the complaint, the victim said: “The blackmailing began after I rejected his marriage proposal when I learned that the accused whom I befriended on social media as Dildar Khan is a school dropout and unemployed. This annoyed him and started posting the video screenshot which he recorded that he captured during our intimate chats.”
Taking the complaint seriously, DCP (Zone X) Datta Nalawade supervised the team–ACP Dr Shashikant Bhosale, MIDC police senior inspector Satish Gaikwad, inspector Tukaram Koyande, sub-inspector Pramod Khotwad and staff–that tracked the accused to Assam. “Ali’s parents took the villagers’ help to get him to escape on learning that the police team had arrived in Assam to arrest him. Around 2500 villagers gathered outside Ali’s house. The team took the superintendent of police’s help in Assam to comb out the entire jungle which lasted over 12 hours before he was nabbed,” said a police officer.
