Lucknow: Scribe threatening, demanding Rs 9 lakh extortion, says woman

LUCKNOW: The wife of a senior official posted in SSB in Bihar lodged a case of extortion and threatening against a journalist in Aashiana on Wednesday.
The woman said she is employed with the state primary education department in Lucknow and lives with her sons and elderly parents in Aashiana.
She told police that she had been transferred to Lucknow from Sitapur in January 2021.
According to her complaint, a journalist from Madiaon is demanding Rs 9 lakh from her alleging that her transfer was done using unfair means.
“My transfer was done on merit basis and with transparency. The accused is bullying me in the name of journalism and threatening to kill me and my sons. I come from a scheduled caste and he used the choicest of expletives and blackmailed me saying he had my call detail records,” she alleged.
She further said that accused had even reached the school where she was posted and threatened her with dire consequences.
“He used to give missed calls on phone of my parents. My sons and my parents are living in fear,” she alleged, pleading anonymity.
Assistant commissioner of police, Cantonment, Archana Singh, said that an FIR was registered under charges of extortion, atrocities against Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes against the accused and investigation was underway.