Stalker out on bail booked for extortion

Ghaziabad: The father of an 18-year-old girl has filed a complaint against a 25-year-old man accusing him of trying to extort money by using his daughter’s explicit pictures and videos.
Around four months ago, the accused, Pappu, was imprisoned for abducting the girl when she was a minor. When the youth found out that the girl had got married, he sent some of her objectionable pictures and videos to her husband’s family and threatened her husband to leave her or face “consequences”.
“He initially asked me to pay Rs 3 lakh. After some days, he reduced the amount to Rs 2.50 lakh and threatened me that if I fail to pay up, he would post my daughter’s explicit pictures and video clips on social media platforms,” said the father of the girl.
Pappu has been booked under IPC sections 386 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation). “We’re searching for the accused to nab him,” said Laxman Verma, SHO, Kotwali police station.