Couple booked for alleged bid to extort 30 crore from IT agency proprietor

The Ernakulam Central police have registered a case in opposition to a pair on cost of bid to extort ₹30 crore from an IT firm proprietor by allegedly threatening to defame him and inflict heavy loss to his firm’s enterprise.

The accused are Swetha Babu and her husband Krishnaraj of Thrissur. The case was registered on a grievance by Venu Gopalakrishnan who runs an organization at Infopark Kochi.

The first accused, Swetha, was once an worker with the petitioner’s firm earlier than she resigned. According to the primary data report (FIR), the accused threatened to unfold rumours in regards to the petitioner’s alleged illicit affair with the primary accused and implicate him in a rape case. The accused allegedly made the menace to a few different staff of the corporate, together with a director, who had been known as as much as a premier lodge within the metropolis on July 23 round 7 p.m.

The accused allegedly requested them to get an affidavit promising ₹30 crore signed by the petitioner. They allegedly demanded that ₹10 crore be credited to the primary accused’s account and to offer two cheques of ₹10 crore every. The accused allegedly pressured the petitioner to switch ₹50,000 to the primary accused’s checking account on July 28, the FIR mentioned.

The police booked the accused underneath the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 308 (2) (extortion), and three (5) (frequent intention).