Hyderabad: Police have frozen Rs 2 lakh in the bank accounts of a 23-year-old man accused of blackmailing and extorting money from multiple victims after chatting with them while posing as a woman. Meanwhile, one more cheating case was registered against the accused, K Pavan Kumar, at the Saifabad police station.Pavan Kumar was arrested by the Saidabad police on Oct 19 on a complaint by a 22-year-old engineering student. The complainant alleged that Pavan had extorted nearly Rs 4 lakh since 2024 by threatening to circulate his private videos online. He was remanded in judicial custody.Subsequently, a woman alleged that Pavan had deceived her husband by posing as a woman, Chandana, on social media. “Pavan misled my husband by assuring him that he would arrange his marriage with Chandana. Using social media chats, he blackmailed my husband and extorted about Rs 10 lakh from him. Pavan also prevented my husband from meeting the family,” the complainant alleged. On her complaint, the Khairatabad police had registered a cheating and extortion case on Oct 20.On Oct 26, Saidabad police took Pavan into three-day custody from Chanchalguda prison. During the custody, police confronted him about the people he had cheated. “He was chatting with men posing as a woman on different social media platforms. He chatted with over 1,000 people from across India and stored private videos and photos of 82 of them. Using the photos, he was blackmailing and extorting people. Since 2024, he had extorted about Rs 25 lakh and spent most of the amount,” a Saidabad police officer said.After the conclusion of custody, Saidabad police produced him before a court on Thursday and he was remanded back to judicial custody. “We identified Rs 2 lakh in three of his bank accounts in different banks in Kothagudem. The amount was frozen,” Saidabad inspector B Chandra Mohan said.Meanwhile, one more cheating case was registered against Pavan at the Saifabad police station. The case was booked on Oct 26 based on the complaint of an HR manager of the private finance company where Pavan had worked in 2023. The complainant alleged that Pavan had borrowed Rs 35,000 from the company and quit the job after paying only a part of it in 2023. “Pavan deceived us by falsely stating that his father was unwell and obtained money. He quit without informing us and did not repay the balance amount of Rs 16,333,” the complainant alleged.
