The Pune city police are on the lookout for a woman who allegedly befriended a sweet shop owner on Facebook, met him in person, and later began extorting money from him by threatening to make their ‘relationship’ public. The 30-year-old woman from Sangli district was booked on charges related to extortion, robbery and criminal intimidation following a First Information Report (FIR) lodged by a 45-year-old man from Pune Camp, who runs a sweet shop on the prominent Laxmi Road in the city. The case was lodged at the Faraskhana police station on Friday. As per the FIR, the man came in contact with the woman over Facebook a few days ago, following which she came to meet him at his sweet shop on September 25. Threatening to defame him before his family members, the woman allegedly extorted Rs 500 and also took some sweet boxes from him forcefully, the FIR stated. The woman allegedly approached him later and demanded Rs 70,000. The sweet shop owner initially refused, but after she blackmailed him, saying she would contact his family members, he gave the money to her, as per the FIR. Later, the woman allegedly demanded Rs 2 lakh from the complainant. When he asked her to come to his shop to collect the money, she refused and forced him to pay Rs 25,000 through Google Pay, the FIR alleged. As the blackmail continued, the man approached the police. A police team, including Assistant Police Inspector Shital Jadhav, who is investigating the case, is on the lookout for the woman.
