New Delhi: A Bengaluru-based engineer has been arrested for fraudulently accessing CCTV cameras of a couple in Delhi and recording their intimate videos on his mobile.
Amar Ujala said that the Cyber Crime Cell of Delhi Police arrested the accused engineer from Bangalore, who had been blackmailing the couple for some time.
Delhi Police told that both the husband and wife living in South Delhi are employed and have hired a domestic help to look after their daughter. To keep an eye on both, the couple got CCTV installed in the house. A few months back when his cameras broke down, he called a technician from the company and a young man named Rashid accessed the CCTV cameras installed on his mobile on the pretext of fixing them.
The couple alleged that the engineer had made over 100 intimate videos and was extorting them by blackmailing them.
A senior official of Delhi Police’s cyber cell said, “Following the complaint of the couple, accused Rashid has been arrested from Bengaluru and over 80 videos of the couple’s intimate moments have also been recovered from his mobile.” Now the police is also trying to find out whether the accused leaked this video on social media.
The accused is a resident of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. He was working in a company in Delhi in 2019 and during this time he went to the couple’s house to fix the CCTV and got access to the cameras. Later he moved to Bangalore in connection with work.
He allegedly extorted some money from the couple initially.
Police officials said the engineer started blackmailing the couple last month and demanded Rs 3 lakh as the first installment. He used to threaten both of them that if they did not pay, he would leak the video on social media. Police said that initially the couple gave some money, but when their demand started increasing, they complained to the cyber cell, after which the accused was arrested.
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