Orissa HC expresses empathy for victims of blackmail

Cuttack | Tuesday | 19th March, 2019

Summary:

One, who does not resist at the right time, becomes the victim of repetitive harassment and exploitation. She then alleged how Avinash had continuously blackmailed and extracted money from her repeatedly by using her indecent photographs and morphed photographs and threatening to ruin her marital life. Fear psychosis is created to manipulate and paralyse the victim". Her father a senior lawyer and husband a Major in the armed forces. CUTTACK: The Orissa high court has expressed empathy for victims of blackmail who fall prey to emotional blackmail , do not resist at the right time and get manipulated by fear psychosis created by the blackmailer.The empathy was writ large in a nine-page order in which the single-judge Bench of Justice SK Sahoo refused to grant bail to an alleged blackmailer on Thursday saying: "Giving a second chance to a blackmailer is like giving an extra bullet for his gun".Justice Sahoo said, "One, who falls prey to emotional blackmail, becomes a puppet in the hands of a blackmailer..