Maharashtra: Gang puts filmmaker’s dad in porn video, demands Rs 25 crore
V Narayan | TNN | Updated: Feb 23, 2019, 08:28 IST
Representative imageMUMBAI: Five persons, including a woman, have been arrested by Amboli police for a bizarre plot to extort Rs25 crore from a Bollywood producer. Dhanraj Sindhi (68), a Parkinsons’ patient, was advised massage sessions by his doctor for relief. When his son Anil (40), a filmmaker, started looking for a therapist, a woman, Lucky Mishra (32), got in touch with the family. The sessions were conducted in October and December last year.
On January 15, Dhanraj received a call from one Rahul Shukla, who identified himself as a staffer of a YouTube channel and said he had a pornographic clip of the senior citizen that would be leaked unless he coughed up Rs25 crore. “When my father denied being part of any such act, the caller disconnected the line,” said Anil in his police complaint, which he lodged on February 16. “Later, I got a call from a friend, who said five persons had made calls to him, telling him that they had video clippings of my father in compromising situations, which they would release on their online portal if I failed to fulfil their extortion demands.”
The five, after they were busted, were identified as Lucky (the woman), Hussain Makarani (36; who hatched the silly plot), Yuvraj Chavan (30), Rehman Shaikh (45), and Keval Ramkumar (60). They were arrested when they met Anil at CCD, Lokhandwala, on Thursday evening, and accepted Rs5 lakh as the first instalment of Rs12 crore they had settled for. Of course, this was a trap laid by a team supervised by additional commissioner of police (west) Manoj Sharma.
“Anil met the gang at least five times and even quarreled with them after watching one of the video clips. He told the gang it was not his father on the clip and that the sequences were morphed. Unknown to the gang, Anil recorded the conversation,” said an officer. During investigations, the police learnt that the gang had extorted money using a similar method in 2017. The victim had then settled the matter with the gang, fearing stigma. The five have been booked under the IPC for extortion, etc, and the IT Act’s section 67A for electronically transmitting material containing sexually explicit act.
On January 15, Dhanraj received a call from one Rahul Shukla, who identified himself as a staffer of a YouTube channel and said he had a pornographic clip of the senior citizen that would be leaked unless he coughed up Rs25 crore. “When my father denied being part of any such act, the caller disconnected the line,” said Anil in his police complaint, which he lodged on February 16. “Later, I got a call from a friend, who said five persons had made calls to him, telling him that they had video clippings of my father in compromising situations, which they would release on their online portal if I failed to fulfil their extortion demands.”
The five, after they were busted, were identified as Lucky (the woman), Hussain Makarani (36; who hatched the silly plot), Yuvraj Chavan (30), Rehman Shaikh (45), and Keval Ramkumar (60). They were arrested when they met Anil at CCD, Lokhandwala, on Thursday evening, and accepted Rs5 lakh as the first instalment of Rs12 crore they had settled for. Of course, this was a trap laid by a team supervised by additional commissioner of police (west) Manoj Sharma.
“Anil met the gang at least five times and even quarreled with them after watching one of the video clips. He told the gang it was not his father on the clip and that the sequences were morphed. Unknown to the gang, Anil recorded the conversation,” said an officer. During investigations, the police learnt that the gang had extorted money using a similar method in 2017. The victim had then settled the matter with the gang, fearing stigma. The five have been booked under the IPC for extortion, etc, and the IT Act’s section 67A for electronically transmitting material containing sexually explicit act.
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