MUMBAI: A 77-year-old retired principal of a South Mumbai arts school became the latest victim of ‘sextortion’, after a woman repeatedly stalked him online, made video calls to him while posing naked and then threatened to make recordings of those calls public and file a rape case against him.
The victim, a resident of Khar (west), filed a case at the Khar police station on November 17 after repeated calls from the woman for more than a week.
The former principal, who had retired in 2002, used social media to keep in touch with students and to post stories related to arts. On November 10, the woman sent him a friend request on Facebook, but he did not accept as he didn’t know her.
In his complaint, the senior citizen said, “The woman sent a message saying she is employed in a beauty parlour and wanted to talk to me. But I did not accept her friend’s request.”
She then posted her contact number on his page and said she wanted to talk urgently.
“Thinking it important, the victim shared his number too. The next two days, the woman kept sending messages to him, but he did not reply,” said an officer from Khar police.
On November 12, he got a WhatsApp video call and found the woman posing naked.
“He immediately disconnected the call. Two days later, she insisted that he transfer Rs 249 for her mobile recharge,” said the police.
The woman repeated this two to three times, before claiming that she had recorded him enjoying her naked video calls.
She threatened to share the video with his wife and children and file a false case of rape against him if he disconnected her calls, said cops.
“We are getting the help of the cyber cell in tracking the internet protocol (IP) address of the woman who threatened him and tried to extort money after repeatedly stalking him on social media,” said an officer from Khar police station.
