An FIR was filed against a couple and five others for allegedly forcing a 28-year-old woman to convert to Islam by blackmailing her using her private photos, police said.
Delhi Police arrested one person from Indore for pretending to be a woman and blackmailing people on WhatsApp after filming objectionable videos during conversation, police said on Sunday.
The mother of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, alleged that the Moscow authorities are "blackmailing" her to accept a secret burial of her son, after she was allowed to see the corpse for the first time since his mysterious death in prison, The Washington Post reported.
A 41-year-old man was booked for allegedly raping his 22-year-old friend by blackmailing her and trying to defame her by distributing printouts of their private chats among her neighbours, police said.
Two persons have been arrested for allegedly extorting over Rs 10 lakh from a woman after threatening to upload her "indecent photographs" on social media, police said on Thursday.
On Monday, the Pakistani police arrested the accused principal employed at a private school in Karachi for allegedly raping and blackmailing several women.
Tanveer Khan, a resident of Ranchi, was arrested from Bihar's Araria district on Wednesday - two weeks after a model based in Mumbai accused him of raping and blackmailing her, the police said.
As per the complaint filed by the victim's family, who claimed that the accused allegedly took her objectionable photos and videos, and started threatening her of posting them on social media.
Requesting the Union Home Minister to hand over this alleged case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Jarkiholi said, "I am strong. I am not scared of any CDs and threats."