Leena Maria Paul, a Malayalam actress, has hit the headlines after being caught in a Rs 200-crore extortion racket with her husband Sukesh Chandrasekar. Paul, who made her acting debut in 2009 with Mohanlal's Red Chillies, is accused of assisting conman Chandrasekhar in duping former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh's wife Aditi Singh.

Aditi Singh filed an FIR on August 7 detailing how a person acting as a senior official from the Law Ministry offered her a deal to get bail for her husband in exchange for money in June of last year. Shivinder Mohan Singh was then in jail in a money laundering case. 

Chandrasekhar was leading an extortion racket at the time of the incident, and he was already imprisoned in Delhi's Rohini jail. Chandrasekhar's two associates, as well as two top Rohini jail employees, have been detained for assisting Chandrasekhar.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Economic Offences Wing) RK Singh said, "An assistant jail superintendent and the deputy superintendent of Rohini jail were found involved in the racket and they have admitted to having helped the accused. The two jail officials were also arrested." 

Chandrashekhar, who is accused in 21 other cases and his partner, actress Leena Maria Paul, are both accused of fraud. Leena Paul was given 15 days of custody by a Delhi court on Monday. Leena Maria Paul and Chandrasekar were arrested in 2013 for allegedly defrauding a Chennai bank of Rs 19 crore. In 2015, she was arrested for the second time in a fraud involving millions of dollars. After a shootout at her beauty shop in Kochi in December 2018, Paul once again created headlines for all the wrong reasons.

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