India, April 16 -- A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been set up to probe the sex racket in Amravati district, where a 19-year-old has been arrested for recording sexually explicit videos of young women, all of them Muslim, and using the videos to blackmail them. It is believed that around 180 women, including minors, were exploited, and the videos circulated online.

On Tuesday, police arrested the prime accused, Mohammad Ayan, 19, along with three associates, Uzer Khan, 21, Mohammad Saad, 22, and Tabrez Khan, 24. On Wednesday, a bandh was observed in the twin towns of Achalpur and Paratwada, around 180 km from Nagpur. Ayan is a resident of Paratwada. Shocked and outraged, residents are demanding the maximum punishment under the law...