A high-profile honey-trap scandal that had taken the Madhya Pradesh politics by storm in the second half of the 12 months 2019 is again in the information helming the affairs in the State.
It all began days in the past when talking about his former minister Umang Singhar beleaguered in the controversial death of his female friend, MPCC President Kamal Nath had referred to the scandal saying he by no means indulged in politics of blackmailing even because the investigators had proven him the unique CD of the rip-off.
Singhar’s female friend had hanged herself at his residence in Bhopal not too long ago and police had hurriedly booked him over abetment of suicide in the course of the preliminary probe. The Congress celebration had alleged political vendetta. It was extensively seen as arm-twisting by Congress to avoid wasting its former minister from authorized hassles.
BJP by way of Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang had assaulted the septuagenarian Congress chief accusing him of blackmail. Sarang on Sunday had questioned why Nath hid the proof, searching for an FIR in opposition to him.
Special Investigation Team reportedly has served a discover to Nath for questioning him on June 2 in this regard. Nath, nonetheless, in his Morena journey on Sunday denied he has the pen-drive saying ‘you people (media) has it’.
The MP Congress has additionally slammed the SIT letter saying it has been issued by a accountable Station-in-Charge however with none date, dispatch quantity or any seal.
How the scandal unfolded
The lid on the key scandal was blown off after the Indore Municipal Corporation metropolis engineer Harbhajan Singh had approached the police in Indore in September 2019 that he was blackmailed by some ladies with a sleaze CD. The police then laid a lure and arrested Shweta Vijay Jain, thought of the mastermind of the racket, Shweta Swapnil Jain, Aarti Dayal, Barkha Soni and their driver Abhishek Thakur.
During the preliminary probe, it emerged that the gang had been honey-trapping politicians, senior bureaucrats, contractors and builders for a protracted. Soon after an SIT was fashioned into the matter. Raids on the residences of ladies engaged in the nexus had led to the restoration of large money, property and digital devices and units which had ‘victims’ in compromising scenario.
Then SIT chief had handed over a closed envelope to the High Court reportedly carrying 40 names in 2020.
The subsequent probe had revealed that the gang of ladies additionally engaged in human trafficking and pushed women into the sleazy commerce to mint cash.
The gang focused poor and middle-class women and girls and supplied them jobs in NGOs and later pushed them into the honey-trapping crime after making them hooked on an expensive way of life.
Through alluring photos of the ladies, the gang used to entrap victims and later document his acts by way of hidden cameras which had been used to blackmail them later. Some journalists additionally had been engaged in the nexus who used to get well cash from the victims in a while as mediators.
The gang additionally received contracts, tasks and switch posting executed in addition to recovering cash from the victims. Driver Abhishek who labored in Shweta Vijay Jain’s manufacturing facility additionally was concerned in their misdeeds and helped them put together faux IDs of the ladies employed by the gang.
Aarti Dayal who herself was entrapped by the gang in the previous labored as a handler for them taking care of the ladies arranging for their meals, shelter and different necessities and in addition ready them to take a plunge into this sleazy enterprise.
Those arrested in the case are in Indore central jail whereas the probe hasn’t led wherever particularly on publicity of these entrapped by the ladies.
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