Indore:
A picture of the alleged kingpin of a high-profile extortion racket, Shweta Vijay Jain, talking with a senior police official, KK Kulshreshtha, throughout the female ward of the Indore District Jail – that simply currently was viral on the Internet – has uncovered the security of the jail whereby all 5 accused of the case are presently lodged. The jail authorities have launched a probe into the matter.
DIG Jail, Sanjay Pandey, carried out detailed inspection and search of the Indore District Jail premises on Thursday, with particular focus on the female ward which properties three barracks having 80-plus women inmates.
“The search was carried out after the concerned picture went viral, nevertheless nothing incriminating or objectionable was found. Indore Central Jail Superintendent Rakesh Kumar Bhangre has been requested to probe in per week how the pictures had been clicked contained within the jail and submit a report,” he acknowledged.
The sensational extortion racket – unearthed last yr – involved a dozen excessive bureaucrats and eight former ministers of Madhya Pradesh and over 1,000 clips of intercourse chats, particular films and audios had left behind a money path. These working the operation, who had been in contact with extremely efficient males in corridors of power in Madhya Pradesh for spherical a decade, had earned large sums of money as price by means of transfers and postings throughout the state, sources had knowledgeable NDTV.
Two of the women involved throughout the scandal – Sweta Vijay Jain and Barkha Soni Bhatnagar – who reportedly had key political contacts in every BJP and the Congress had been on the forefront of all major enterprise presents, sources acknowledged.
Typically referred to as the “honey-trap” scandal, the racket had targeted primarily politicians and bureaucrats and anxious 5 women who used intercourse employees and youthful faculty girls, the police say. Higher than 200 mobile phone contacts had been uncovered in raids.