Mumbai: Did honeytrap woman cry sexual assault against doctor too?

MUMBAI: A day after a gang that blackmailed and extorted Rs 3.3 crore from a businessman was busted, the police said that one of the two women from the gang had filed a molestation case against a doctor at Amboli police station in 2018.
The police are now digging out similar cases that could help dig out skeletons and expose the gang’s other such cases. So far, they have stumbled upon at least two such molestation cases and are probing as to how genuine these were.
On Thursday, three people were arrested — Anil Choudhary alias Akash (42), Manish Sodi (41) and fashion designer Lubna Wazir alias Sapna (47). Their aide from Delhi, Monica Bhagwan alias Dev Choudhary, who was the honeytrap is wanted by the police. They have been accused of honey-trapping a 64-year-old businessman from Kolhapur after filming him with Moncia who, the police said, was partly undressed. The gang had threatened to make the video viral, extorted money and threatening to to falsely implicate him in a sexual assault case.
“One of the accused women had lodged a molestation case against a doctor, We are now gathering more details about that case,” said a police inspector who is part of the investigation.
Another case of 2018 that the police are looking at is one in which a woman, had lodged a rape complaint against a businessman in Jaipur. Two of those arrested for extortion from the Kolhapur businessman and the wanted accused were witnesses in the Jaipur case.
Around four years ago, the businessman from Kolhapur was in Goa when he first met Anil. Later, whenever he came to Mumbai, he would meet him, sources said.
During one such meeting in Mumbai, Anil introduced Sapna to the businessman. In 2019, the businessman had come to Mumbai and invited Anil to a five-star hotel where he had checked in. He took Sapna and Monica along with him. In the hotel room, as per plan, Sapna shot a video of Monica in a state of undress with the businessman around. This is when they started threatening the businessman to upload the video on social media and demanded Rs 10 crore to settle the matter, said the police.
The businessman ended up paying up to Rs 3.3 crore until recently.