The Jagatsinghpur police have arrested a youth, Hiranya Barik alias Shankar, from Dhianpari village on the charge of blackmailing a girl student pursuing an engineering course in Bhubaneswar.
Report said that Shankar runs a studio, where the girl had shot a few photos. After taking the photos, Shankar allegedly doctored them and started blackmailing the girl.
At a preliminary stage, the girl had acted as per the blackmailer’s wish, but day by day he started overexploiting her. Finding no other out, the girl lodged an FIR against the youth at the Jagatsinghpur police station. Police arrested the accused from his village and forwarded him to court after interrogation.