More than 40 name women, together with a number of B-grade actresses from Bollywood were engaged to honey-entice bureaucrats and politicians, together with a former Chief Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh, by an enormous blackmailing syndicate in Bhopal. As of now, 92 top quality video clips, depicting bureaucrats and politicians in a compromising place, have been recovered from two laptops and several other cell phones of 5 girls arrested on fees of a sex-blackmail and extortion racket which has rocked MP, a politically unstable state in central India.
The Special Investigation Team of MP police led by Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Sanjeev Shami, is gathering clinching proof by matching video clips with the placement of websites the place it was shot by the decision women or by the ladies working the intercourse and blackmailing racket. Sanjeev Shami, a senior IPS officer, was given the cost of investigation in the case whereas changing D. Srinivas on Tuesday amid allegation by the BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya that Congress authorities was selectively focusing on BJP leaders in the intercourse scandal which now requires an impartial company such because the CBI to probe the case.
Sources in the SIT revealed to IANS that kingpin of the intercourse racket, Shweta Swapnil Jain, arrested by SIT, employed prime name women to honeytrap bureaucrats and politicians holding essential places of work of the state authorities. “After initial interaction with a bureaucrat or a minister, Shweta used to invite the ‘target’ for sex, to a guest house or a five star suite of her choice. Once the ‘target’ was involved in a sexual act, his video was recorded either by a hidden mobile or a spy cam,” mentioned an officer of the SIT who claimed hat 5 exhausting disks have been seized from Shweta’s husband Swapnil Jain in this connection.
Some of the ‘goal’ who flew to Mumbai or Delhi on official excursions were offered fashions and Bollywood actresses, typically on their demand. However, SIT has nonetheless to grab such video clips the place any recognized actress might be seen.
During her interrogation Shweta confessed that when a Minister or Secretary were honey-trapped, his favour was sought in procuring profitable authorities contracts for the NGO run by Shweta. Sources mentioned that Shweta admitted that the NGO run by her husband was obliged with Rs eight crore contract from the Bhopal Municipal Corporation. Many such contracts working into a number of crores were secured from numerous state authorities departments equivalent to PWD, Housing, Social Welfare and different Government firms. Shweta additionally admitted that a former CM of MP gifted her a bunglow in Minal Residency, in posh Bhopal space.
Speaking on the involvement of former ministers and bureaucrats in the intercourse racket, state Congress spokesperson Okay.Okay. Mishra mentioned the racket was being operated in Bhopal, Indore and different distinguished cities of MP. “It (racket) was going on for years, therefore 80 per cent of politicians involved in the blackmail are of the BJP. Police Have got names of all the leaders, however I would not take any names till there is any arrest of a politician or a bureaucrat”.
On being requested in regards to the involvement of Congress leaders, Mishra mentioned among the many politicians honey-trapped by the syndicate, round 20 per cent Congress functionaries were additionally hooked by the operators. “We will arrest Congress persons too if their involvement in obliging the operators is proved prima facie. But let me repeat, the majority of leaders involved in the scandal are from the BJP, ” Mishra, the person who primarily highlighted the scandal, instructed IANS.
Besides Shweta Jain, one other girls Aarti Dayal, arrested by the SIT, admitted throughout her questioning that she got here in contact with a senior IAS officer of MP cadre who launched her to a number of ministers. Aarti mentioned she continued to oblige the IAS officer who additionally organized a flat for her in Bhopal. Later the flat, occupied by Aarti turned a den of all types of illicit offers.
Aarti additionally revealed that spy cameras were put in in a number of rooms of the flat the place politicians, bureaucrats and prime authorities engineers were stung in a compromising place. Aarti additionally employed name women in performing sting operations. In a number of instances, Aarti additionally obliged ministers by partaking B grade Bollywood heroines and fashions.
Like Shweta, the mastermind of the racket, Aarti additionally floated an NGO to acquire great amount of presidency funds from the bureaucrats and the Ministers involved in lieu of offering them name women. Aarti additionally revealed that solely in uncommon instances the ‘goal’ was confronted with the spy cam recordings as in many of the instances, the “target” used to simply facilitate authorities funds to her NGO.
Sources in the SIT disclosed that after forensic examination of video clips, the individuals blackmailed by syndicate shall be recognized. A case might be registered in opposition to these excessive profile individuals, as soon as it’s established that they obliged the ladies with authorities funds or profitable contracts.
As per the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act, solely these authorities servants( together with Ministers) might be charged who’ve granted out-of-flip contracts or funds from the treasury to the sex-blackmail syndicates. Participation in illicit intercourse actions doesn’t entice sections of the Corruption Act, although motion will be taken below Service Conduct guidelines.
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