Ahmedabad police arrested three men for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 15-year-old boy from Saraspur by blackmailing him with an obscene video of him. a team of cybercrime cops and a squad of Shaherkotda police caught the accused from Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh.
The accused has been identified as Ankesh Lodhi, 20, a resident of Besora village, Sunny Lodhi, 19, a resident of Jaray village, and Manoj Lodhi, 26, a resident of Bachron village.
The accused had been running a sextortion racket. They would record people in the nude after making video calls and extort money out of them. They were being brought from Shivpuri to Ahmedabad for further investigation on Thursday night.
The victim, a Class 10 student, had paid around Rs 30,000 to the accused, said police. When they kept demanding more money, he hanged himself at his home on Dec 27.