3 suspected rapist blackmailers arrested from Jatrabari

Police have arrested three members of a gang that blackmailed women by recording videos of gang rape and later threatening to spread them on social media from the capital's Jatrabari.

The arrestees were identified as Md Masum, 25, Md Sharif, 3 and Md Israfil, 22.

A team from the Jatrabari Police Station conducted a raid in the Falbazar area of Jatrabari with the help of technology and arrested the suspects, DC Media of DMP Talebur Rahman said on Saturday.

During the raid, three mobile phones and Tk8,650, which had been extorted from the victim through blackmail, were seized from their possession.

A case has been filed at the Jatrabari Police Station under the Control of Pornography Act, including charges of rape, following one of the victims' complaints.

According to the police, the arrested individuals are members of an organised gang.

They trap women through various social media or apps and rape them and record the videos.

Later, they threaten to spread the recorded videos on social media, including to their families, and later rape them again at different times according to their demands and extort a huge amount of money.

Masum has confessed to 16 such incidents so far. The suspects have been sent to court.

"The investigation into the case and operations to arrest others involved in the incident are ongoing," the police official added.