Hyderabad: Techie held for blackmailing job seeking women with their nude pics

Miyapur police arrested a Chennai-based techie for allegedly blackmailing as many as 600 women from across 16 states. The accused has been identified as 33-year-old Clement Raj Chezhiyan alias Pradeep, a software engineer, who lured women by promising them employment opportunities and later sought nude images from the applicants. He would then use these images to blackmail the women.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu):A fraud techie from Chennai was arrested by the Miyapur police in Telangana's Hyderabad on Friday for cheating women by promising to provide them jobs in hotels for which they had to send their nude pictures and then would blackmail them for money.

The accused, 33-year-old Raju , impersonated as a female human resource manager and collected pictures of around 1000 women from 16 states across the country through WhatsApp and then demanded money from them to not put up the photos, said the police.

Recently, a woman from Hyderabad had put up her resume on a website seeking job as a front office executive. She received a call from a man introducing himself Pradeep and claiming to be working with a star hotel. The lady was informed that a female human resource manager would contact her through WhatsApp to take an interview.

The woman got a WhatsApp message from someone who introduced herself as Archana Jagadeesh who asked her to send full-length pictures of herself. She was informed that she had cleared the first round, and now she had to send naked pictures of herself as the organisation wanted someone with a pleasing personality.

Believing the recruitment process to be true, the woman sent the required pictures. She was then told to get undressed and make a video call. The accused, Raj, recorded the video using another phone and then blackmailed her for money.

The woman lodged a complaint with the Miyapur police after she felt that she has been cheated. Miyapur police after the proper investigation arrested the accused who turned out to be a software engineer working in a reputed multinational company in Chennai.