Mohali, Sept. 16 -- A 36-year-old Ambala Cantt resident alleged that he fell prey to an extortion scam after a woman approached him for lift while he was returning home from Chandigarh last month.

Complainant Ramakant Upadhyay said that he, along with his friends Gurpreet Singh and Abhay Singh, were travelling in his car on August 3 when a woman allegedly flagged down their vehicle near Sector 26 around 2 am. Citing an emergency, she allegedly persuaded them to drop her in Zirakpur.

The complainant said that when they reached Kartik Hotel on the Chandigarh-Ambala road, the woman allegedly asked Upadhyay to stop. Before the three friends could make sense of what was going on, the woman allegedly got out, photographed the trio and threate...