Chennai: A 36-year-old man was arrested in Selaiyur for threatening girls and demanding cash after taking their obscene pictures.
According to police, an engineering student from Tiruchi filed a complaint with police alleging that Karthik Raja alias Sundaram (36), who runs a training institute in Selaiyur had taken obscene pictures of her. She said in her complaint that he had been demanding money to not post the pictures online.
Police arrested Sundaram and said he confessed during enquiry of the crime. He said with the help of a principal and professors of an engineering college near Tiruchi, he would select a girl for training in his institute in Chennai. He would make them stay for some weeks in the pretext of giving industrial training, the Police revealed.
Further, cops said he would drug them by offering soft drinks that are maddled with and later take obscene pictures. Then, he would threaten the students to give cash so that the pictures would not be uploaded online. Fearing him, many had given cash. Sundaram confessed that he had cheated over 10 families. Fearing social condemnation, many have not filed complaint.
Search is on for the principal and professors who helped Sundaram in the crime.