BENGALURU: A 30-year-old woman has filed a complaint against her live-in partner for blackmailing her with her private videos. The victim, a married woman, is separated from her husband due to suspected domestic violence. After she moved to the city in search of a job, she met the accused and became close with him as he helped her get a job as a receptionist.
The accused, who is also married, convinced her to divorce her husband and started living with the victim as live-in partners at a rented house near Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Kadugodi for the last six years. He then started recording their private moments without her notice.
After she was blackmailed and extorted, she escaped the place in 2023 and went to her parent’s house in Kolar district. The accused then started troubling her mother demanding money, failing which he threatened to make her daughter’s private videos public.
He also started calling her brother, demanding money. Unable to bear his harassment, the victim filed a complaint in Kadugodi police station a few days back.
The accused Srinivas a resident of Belathur in Kadugodi, is arrested. The complainant had separated from her husband in 2016 when she was seven months pregnant. She is said to have filed for divorce. The accused is said to have extorted around Rs 1 lakh in cash and some gold ornaments.
“The accused runs a computer shop in Kadugodi. He has been remanded in judicial custody. The accused also informed her family members about her private videos to make money and also in an attempt to get her back,” said an officer.
A case of extortion (BNS 308)(1)), criminal intimidation (BNS 351(2)) and sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means (BNS 69) has been registered against the accused.