Abohar, May 7

The Hanumangarh police have busted a gang involved in honey trapping victims and arrested nine persons, including three women.

SP Preeti Jain said a case of abduction, hostage and blackmail had been registered at the Peelibanga police station following a complaint.

A police team raided various places in Sriganganagar, 40 km from Abohar, and nabbed gang leader Kuldeep Kaur (30) of Chak 6-FB village near Hindumalkot, Pinky Nayak (34), Gurpreet Kaur (28), Puran Chand Bawri (22), Akshay (20), Deepak Dhobi (27), Ankit Arora (22), Khazan Singh (21), alias Gopi, and Balwinder Singh (32) of Padampur. The complainant, a resident of Peelibanga, was reportedly called by Kuldeep to meet a girl near a religious complex at night. The victim said when he went to the designated place at Dulmana village, Kuldeep and a girl were present there. When he started talking to them, four car-borne miscreants arrived at the scene and took him to a house in Sriganganagar. They threatened to implicate him in a rape case if he failed to pay a ransom of Rs 3.5 lakh. They allegedly snatched Rs 3,000 from him and held him hostage. He later managed to flee and return to Peelibanga. — OC