Duo who extorted ₹2.5 cr from CA held for suicide abetment

Two days after a Santacruz-based 32-year-old chartered accountant died by suicide, the Vakola police arrested a man and a woman, both of whom claim to be models and aspiring actors, on charges of extortion and abetment of suicide.

- Manish Kumar Pathak

The duo will be produced in court on Wednesday.

The police said that the 24-year-old male accused, Rahul Parvani, had befriended the deceased 18 months ago on Instagram. His 22-year-old female friend, Saba Qureshi, recorded their intimate videos and extorted over ₹2.5 crore from the CA by threatening to put the videos on social media. Both the accused live in Oshi-wara in Andheri.

The deceased man’s mother told HT that both the accused had visited their house at night thrice in the past month, and harassed her son. “The woman would stand outside the house and threaten to make a noise about the CA’s relationship with her male friend,” she said. “I didn’t know they would torture my son to such an extent that he would end his life.”