Mohali, May 22 -- Zirakpur police have registered a case against a woman and three of her family members for allegedly running a honey-trap and extortion racket by threatening victims with false allegations of rape and molestation. The case was registered on the complaint of a woman who is a resident of Sector 41, Chandigarh. According to the report, the complainant had rented out her flat at Maya Garden City, Zirakpur, to the accused and her family from February 2025 to December 2025 for Rs.14,500 per month through a property dealer. Police said the complainant alleged that on September 7, 2025, her husband, who had returned from Germany, visited the flat to inspect repair work for which he had earlier transferred Rs.30,000. During the visit, the accused allegedly induced the complainant's husband to consume alcohol and persuaded him to remove his shirt due to the hot weather. According to the FIR, the co-accused allegedly entered the flat while recording a video of the complainant's husband in a compromising position and the family threatened to implicate him in a false rape or molestation case unless they were paid Rs.10 lakh. Police said the complainant's husband informed his wife about the incident. After negotiations, the matter was allegedly settled for Rs.4 lakh. The complainant alleged that on September 8, 2025, the family handed over Rs.4 lakh cash in a black bag to the co-accused in the presence of witnesses in exchange for deletion of the video. During the inquiry, police recovered and verified video footage of the alleged cash transaction from a pen drive. An inquiry conducted by Mohali police, found at least seven previous criminal cases Zirkapur police registered an FIR under multiple sections of extortion and criminal intimidation of Bhartiya Nayaya Sanhita....