Get women to connect with wealthy men through dating apps, chat over video calls, record them, file false harassment complaints, and extort crores in the name of a settlement – the plan of a sextortion syndicate operating from Maharashtra was well-laid out and seemed flawless, until it was not.
Gupta was arrested on Wednesday. Gupta would then step in. To bust him, the police initially pretended to cooperate with him. They then reached out to Gupta’s latest victim, a man named Irfan who was named in one such case, and brought him to Nagpur. The police uncovered the entire blackmail plot after taking Irfan into confidence.
The Nagpur Police busted the racket run by 35-year-old Aditya Gupta that targeted wealthy men through dating applications such as Mika and others. He would offer them Rs 4 lakh or more, make their profiles on dating apps to target wealthy men and carry out the extortion. The syndicate was busted when Gupta tried to extort a staggering Rs 3 crore from the latest man who fell victim to his crime. The police found over 400 explicit videos of women and are investigating the extent of the crime. He would seek out educated, struggling, or needy young women, including engineers and working professionals and lure them into his gang by offering large sums of money, ranging from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.
Gupta would approach vulnerable young women in need of money to carry out the crime, according to the police. Gupta ran an incredibly calculated operation, according to police. Armed with the recorded video calls, he would approach the police, pretending to “help” the young women as an influential legal adviser and social activist.
Mastermind Lived In Five-Star Hotels, Left His Family Gupta, the mastermind of the racket, hails from Agra and was living in Pune during his arrest. Five years ago, he left his family and disappeared, later moving to Maharashtra where he started the crime ring.
