UP: Honey-trap gang busted, four, including 2 women, arrested

LUCKNOW: Four members of a honey-trap gang including two women were arrested in Bazaarkhala police station area on Thursday.
The police seized a high-end car with a sticker in an MLA’s name, complete with a hooter mounted on its roof and the national emblem embossed on the registration number plate. The police also seized a pistol shaped cigarette lighter from the accused.
Those arrested were identified as Rizwana Khan aka Ria of Vikasnagar, Neha Majhar of Maharashtra, Sohail Rajput of Mumbai and Firoz Sheikh of Maharashtra.Police claimed to have solved a fraud case with the arrest.
ADCP (West), Rajesh Srivastava said the police were tipped off about the gang and its criminal activities by an informer. “The team rounded them up and interrogated them at a police station and they confessed to their crime,” he said.
Describing the modus operandi, the ADCP said the women members in the gang called up their targets and seduced them. They used to make a video and audio clip of the conversation which they used to blackmail the targets. The ADCP said the accused had trapped several people in the past.