Bhopal: All five accused will be in judicial custody till October 14, for their alleged involvement in the honey trap ring targeting politicians and government officials in Madhya Pradesh.
Earlier it was reported that state police had extracted more than 4,000 files from the laptops and mobile phones of the accused arrested in the matter. Sources said that the recovered files include audio, video clips and screenshots of chats, many of them said to be objectionable in nature.
Besides, the change of Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief, a day after it was formed to probe the alleged honey-trap racket in which government officials and politicians were blackmailed, has sparked a row in Madhya Pradesh.
Six persons, including five women and a man, have been arrested in connection with the honey trapping case.
The incident had come to light after an Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) engineer filed a complaint alleging that two women were blackmailing him by threatening to make some objectionable videos viral.
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