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Shweta Vijay Jain (48) is at the centre of the sex and-blackmail racket that was busted in Indore on the night of September 17. A former BJP youth wing office-bearer from Sagar district, Shweta subverted the system virtually at will.
She started the blackmailing game alone soon after the BJP came to power 16 years ago, and, over the years, managed to attract scores of women and call girls with her magnetic charm. her dazzling lifestyle and fabulous contacts in politics and bureaucracy beckoned women such as Aarti dayal, Shweta Swapnil Jain, Barkha Soni and Monica Yadav to tread the slutty road to opulence. They had travelled quite a long risky distance.
On September 17, the women ran out of luck. A city engineer in the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC), Harbhajan Singh, proved to be their nemesis. he approached the Palasia police station to lodge a complaint that two women were blackmailing him.
Singh told the police that the women had secretly recorded his ‘intimate moments’ with a girl and were threatening to make public the video if he did not cough up ₹3 crore. he took the name of Aarti Dayal and Shweta Jain. The engineer had spent many nights with the girl supplied by the gang and, in lieu of that, got many work contracts awarded to Aarti’s brother. But the gang apparently was not satisfied with just that much of favour.
Following the complaint, Indore SSP Ruchi Vardhan Mishra laid a trap for the blackmailers. She asked the complainant to call the woman to Indore, promising to pay ₹50 lakh as first instalment of the deal.
The women identified as Aarti Dayal (29) and Shweta Jain fell in the trap. They were immediately detained. Their interrogation led to four more arrests in Bhopal on the same night. They were identified as Monica Yadav (18), Shweta Swapnil Jain (39), Barkha Soni (34) and Omprakash Kori (45). All of them are in jail now.
This story is from the October 2019 edition of gfiles.
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