‘Honey-trap accused cheated over 1,000 victims out of lakhs’
HYDERABAD: Saidabad police on Thursday sent a man accused in a honey-trap case to judicial custody after three days of police questioning. Cops said Kondabhattula Pavan Kumar used fake social media accounts bearing women’s identities to chat with more than 1,000 people and extort money by threatening to circulate their intimate photographs and videos.
Investigators said Pavan primarily used photographs of a woman from Kolkata to operate a fake profile under the name ‘Chandana’. He allegedly used 13 Instagram accounts and 14 Facebook accounts to target people and extort lakhs of rupees.
