Court asks top cops to guide PSI

Vadodara: A sessions court has directed the inspector general of police of Vadodara range and superintendent of Vadodara rural police to guide an investigating officer to conduct better probe in a blackmailing and extortion case.
Ruling over bail applications of two accused in the case, additional sessions judge A J Kanani pointed out that the accused were not booked under the Information Technology Act despite the accused recording video of the victim on mobile phone. The case is being probed by sub-inspector B D Jadeja of Bhadarwa police station.
The case pertains to a 28-year-old man from Gotri being blackmailed by a woman named Salma alias Puja Saiyed, whom he had befriended on social media, and her two accomplices Shailesh Panchal and Dinesh Patel. Saiyed and Panchal had applied for bail which was turned down on Monday.
The victim and Saiyed had met at her home in Manjusar on July 21. When the duo was getting intimate, Panchal and Patel barged in and had started taking pictures and videos of them. They thrashed the victim and asked him to shell out Rs 2 lakh, but as he did not have the money then, the accused took away his mobile phone and gold ring. On the same evening, the man had approached Bhadarwa police station with his complaint and the accused were arrested.