Congress chief and former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath.
Kamal Nath had earlier claimed that he possessed a pen drive/CD of the honey entice case, following which a discover was served to him by the SIT to document his assertion.
- PTI Indore
- Last Updated:June 02, 2021, 20:33 IST
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A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the ‘honey entice’ case in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday couldn’t document a press release of state Congress president Kamal Nath as he was not obtainable in Bhopal, an official mentioned. The ‘honey-trap scandal, which got here to mild in 2019, was an organised racket whereby a gang used to lure wealthy and high-placed individuals utilizing younger girls and later blackmail them threatening to launch objectionable content material akin to intimate movies and screenshots of social media chats. The younger girls had been introduced to Bhopal by means of trafficking, police had mentioned.
Nath had claimed in a web-based press convention on May 21 that he possessed a pen drive/CD of the honey entice case, following which a discover was served to him by the SIT to document his assertion beneath the CrPc sections. “Nath had already informed in writing that he will be in Delhi on Wednesday as per his pre-decided programme and therefore won’t be able to record his statement,” Narendra Saluja, the media coordinator of the previous Madhya Pradesh chief minister, advised PTI.
A senior SIT official additionally mentioned as Nath was not obtainable in Bhopal, his assertion on possessing the pen drive of the honey entice incident couldn’t be recorded. The official mentioned no recent date was given to Nath to document his assertion.
Investigators had arrested 5 girls and their driver from Bhopal and Indore in September 2019 in reference to the ‘honey entice’ case. At that point, the Kamal Nath-led Congress authorities was in energy in Madhya Pradesh.
Police had filed a cost sheet within the case in a court docket in Indore on December 16, 2019. As per the cost sheet, the organised gang used to lured wealthy and high-placed individuals utilizing younger girls trafficked to Bhopal.
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