Chinese man among 12 indicted

A local court has framed charges against 12 accused in a loan app racket busted by the UT Police in September 2022.

The police had registered a case following complaints by residents that the accused had trapped them by offering loans of smaller sums through mobile applications and later extorted money using nude morphed pictures.

On downloading the applications, the accused used to gain access to contacts, photos and videos of the victims. They would then force them to pay loans after two or three days and make them deposit more money by wrongly showing the loan as pending.