Bhubaneswar: Police have nabbed five juveniles in Odisha capital for allegedly blackmailing people after befriending them on a social networking app for gay, bisexual and transgenders, and then extorting money from them by recording their objectionable videos.
The arrests were made on the basis of a complaint by a youth from Khurda.
According to sources, the accused picked targets by tracking them through fake accounts on Grindr. They used to ask them to come to a location at Garage Chhak and then take them to a house at Samantarapur, where obscene videos of the victims were shot. Following this, they used to ask them to transfer money to their account and even take to ATMs by threatening to make the video viral.
The group has extorted lakhs of rupees from around 5 persons in the last seven days, the sources added.
Police investigation is underway to ascertain involvement of more people in the racket.
