Lucknow: Meanwhile, Lucknow police has busted five members of a gang that has lured and blackmailed people in a honey trap. This includes three men and two women. The three men were wearing police uniforms and were extorting money by threatening individuals in this way. Police have arrested the five criminals and are taking further action.

According to reports, a victim in Lucknow's Station Hazratganj area had told the police that two women and three policemen were blackmailing him and threatening to make his obscene video viral and demanding money from him. Due to which he is completely mentally disturbed. He wants to get out of this problem at the earliest, otherwise, he has no other way to go than to commit suicide.

The police took the victim's complaint seriously and engaged a surveillance team to investigate the case. As a result, the victims informed the police that two women and three policemen had come to collect money from him in a car near Kanpur Road. Police formed a team and reached the spot with the help of surveillance. Three criminals were in police uniform and were accompanied by two women on the occasion. Police arrested the five and took them to the police station. He was identified as Pankaj Gupta, Atul Saxena, and Azizul Hasan Siddiqui in the interrogation. Two women have also been caught along with them. Whose job was to trap the victim. According to Police Commissioner DK Thakur, the gang used to professionally identify the people around them on the social media portal and talk sweetly on the phone and after which they were trapped and called to the designated place.

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