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Jodhpur, Feb 1 PTI) A couple was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly driving a model to attempt suicide to escape their blackmailing threats to honey-trap a minister belonging to Bhilwara in Rajasthan, police said.
The police arrested Akshat and Deepali from Udaipur after the model, who had tried to commit suicide by jumping from the rooftop of a hotel in Jodhpur on Sunday, gained consciousness and gave her statement to the police.
“We have arrested Akshat and Dipali from Udaipur for blackmailing the girl.
They had been forcing the girl to honey-trap a minister from Bhilwara,” Jodhpur (East) Deputy Commissioner of Police) Bhuvan Bhushan Yadav said.
The couple had a history of blackmailing some other people too including businessmen and traders by getting them honey-trapped, he added.
The couple had been trying to coerce the model to honey-trap the minister on the basis of a video that the couple had shot when she was taking her bath, the DCP said, adding the model had come in their contact over a modelling assignment.