Gurugram police on Wednesday arrested YouTuber Namra Qadir for allegedly extorting more than `80 lakh from a private firm’s owner after honey-trapping and threatening to implicate him in rape case.
According to a senior police official, she was arrested from Delhi on Monday and sent to four-day police remand after being produced before a duty Magistrate’s court.
Qadir’s husband and co-accused Manish alias Virat Beniwal is at large, police said, adding that raids are being conducted to apprehend him.
22-yr-old Qadir has more than 617,000 subscribers on the video sharing platform and Qadir and Beniwal are residents of Shalimar Bagh in Delhi.
Dinesh Yadav (21), a resident of Badshahpur, had lodged a complaint in August but the couple moved court for interim bail, police in Gurugram said.
It was only after their interim bail was cancelled that an FIR was registered on November 26 at the Sector-50 police station against them, they said.
“Qadir has confessed to the crime and we have taken her on police remand to recover the money and other items that were given to her by the victim under alleged pressure. Her husband and co-accused Manish alias Virat Beniwal will be arrested soon,” said SHO Inspector Rajesh Kumar.
In his complaint Dinesh Yadav, who runs an advertising firm, said he got in touch with Qadir sometime ago and Beniwal was with her. He claimed that Qadir demanded `2 lakh for promoting his firm on her channel, and he paid the amount.
Qadir after a few days expressed her liking for him and said she wanted to marry him. They became good friends, according to the complaint.
“In August I along with Qadir and Manish went to a club to party. We booked a room there . The next morning, when I woke up, Qadir asked me to hand over my bank cards and (smart) watch. She threatened to implicate me in a rape case,” the complainant said.
He claimed that “after this they extorted more than `80 lakh and gift items from me. Later, I revealed everything to my father who took me to police,” the victim said in his complaint.