Jammu, April 12 -- SHAJAPUR (MP), Apr 12: Four persons, including two women, were arrested on Sunday for allegedly blackmailing a 70-year-old man and extorting nearly Rs 33 lakh from him in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur district, police said. The accused persons, identified as Parvati Bairagi, Rajendra Bairagi, Sharad Bairagi and Sanjana Bairagi, had allegedly recorded a private clip of the senior citizen during a WhatsApp video call and used it to blackmail him, an official said.
The four also allegedly threatened to implicate the complainant in a false rape case and kill him, Kotwali police station in-charge Santosh Waghela told PTI.
The man told the police that the accused initially took Rs 5,000 and later started demanding lakhs of rupees...