Property dealer, aide arrested for abduction, blackmail to grab land in Lucknow

LUCKNOW (May 2) Police have arrested a property dealer and his woman accomplice for allegedly abducting a man, intoxicating him, and recording objecctionable videos to blackmail him for grabbing his land, officials said on Saturday.

According to a press statement, a case was registered on Friday at Sushant Golf City police station here on a complaint by Rita Saini, a resident of Gosainganj.

In the FIR, Saini named four persons and alleged that, acting as part of an organised gang, they kidnapped her husband, Hariom Shiv Vanmali, forced him to consume intoxicants and later recorded his objectionable photos and videos to threaten the family and take possession of their land, the statement said.