2 men from prominent Kolkata business families arrested
for ‘filming 182 women, extortion’
Police arrested Aditya
Agarwal and Anish Lohruka for running a murderous racket for 25 years, so that
they repeatedly harassed, blackmailed and extorted women.
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| 2 men from prominent Kolkata business families arrested for ‘filming 182 women, extortion’ |
In Kolkata, two families of
two prominent businessmen were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly running a
racket in the city, where 12 women were trapped and filmed in the last six
years.
In the early twenties, both
Aditya Agarwal and Anish Loharka started this slicer business as a child and
were repeatedly harassed, blackmailed and rescued by an accomplice.
According to a Kolkata senior
official in charge of the investigation, Agarwal and Loharka also formed a pool
of friends to exchange the video. Kailash Yadav, a co-worker of the Lohruka
family, has also been arrested for allegedly blackmailing women and assisting
them in making video clips.
In addition to cyber crime,
the police have imposed at least six sections of Indian Penal Code and
Information Technology Act against the accused, including extortion, robbery,
criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation.
Agarwal and Loharaka were
remanded in police custody till February 6. Their family, meanwhile, has hired
about 22 lawyers to fight the case.
The Agarwal family owns a
popular ethnic wear brand that operates nationally, while the Loharka family
operates a hotel chain in Kolkata.
It started in college
According to police sources,
Agarwal and Loharaka began filming intimate moments with their female friends
at school and in college at around 17 in the 20 years. However, the first
allegations against them were found only in November 2019.
Sources said police recovered
at least 12 folders, each containing more than a hundred clips, identifying the
victims' names, ages, addresses and other details.
“Folders almost looked like
companies kept them for employees, with almost all the details, including their
background and performance. There are multiple video clips in each folder,
"said a senior official.
The modus operandi was unique
too, sources said - Agarwal and Lohruka would first be "sensitive" to
the victims, after being filmed by a third person they would become
"physically intimate", who was a cook.
While some of the victims
agreed to the clips for 'fun', most of them were unaware that they were
filming. The pair then exchanged videos of friends in a simple 'live porn
pool'.
Police sources said the
videos were later used to blackmail repeatedly for "intimate moments"
in hotel rooms, resorts and city rentals and other out-of-town rentals.
Five victims have filed charges
In November 2002, a victim,
who is now married, filed an FIRT after being blackmailed by an "unknown
caller" with some clips. The caller demanded a million taka and threatened
to upload the videos online.
The victim refused to pay the
money and instead made an FIR. Since then, at least four more women have come
forward to complain against the couple - after contacting the husband or the
police.
The first complainant could
only supply the number of "unknown callers", primarily because the
police were only hitting the dead end. Police identified the number and took it
to several mobile phones stolen in three other states of Uttarakhand, Bihar and
Jharkhand. But no results were encouraged, sources said.
After a long, exhausting
process, the police zeroed in on a number who had taken Yadav, a resident of
Deoghar in Bihar.
The first complainant stopped
receiving extortion calls after filing an FIR, but they resumed a few days
later. This time, sources said, the police tracked the tower location of the
number, which led them to Yadav. Meanwhile, Lohruka got a laptop hard drive
after receiving FIR news and allegedly kept Yadav in his village.
During Yadav's interrogation,
he mentioned the hard drive and the police recovered it.
Thereafter, four groups of
five officers were formed in the shadow of Agarwal and Loharuka. Sources say
that the parties have been closely monitoring the two, with the approval of
Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma, as they hoped that the families would
try to influence the investigation. But there was no indication of the
investigation of these families for three months.
Finally, Agarwal and Loharaka
were arrested on Wednesday and immediately appeared in court. Their family
members were summoned shortly after reaching the court.
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