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In Attempt To Honey Trap Ex-UP Minister, BSP Functionary And Woman Arrested By Badalpur Police
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A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) functionary and a woman were arrested for allegedly trying to ‘honey-trap’ a former Uttar Pradesh minister in the Mayawati government and malign his image.
BSP leader and former UP minister Kartar Nagar lodged a complaint alleging that a mysterious lady was insisting on meeting him and threatening to malign his image if he failed to meet her, reported Business Standard.
"The woman would repeatedly use WhatsApp to call and text him. She wanted to meet him so that she could get their pictures clicked together and extort money from him," said a police officer.
The Badalpur police station lodged the case, and the phone number was tracked down to Usha (name changed), and it has emerged that she was working on instructions of Updesh Nagar, who is a functionary of BSP.
Updesh Nagar and the woman were booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 507 (criminal intimidation) and 384 (extortion) and were produced before a local court.
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