NEW DELHI: When 30-year-old Rohit Bhalla (name changed) hired a technician to repair CCTV cameras at home, he had little idea about the horror he and his wife would have to live through soon.
Bhalla, who lives in south Delhi, works as a consultant at a private firm while his wife is employed with a multinational company.
The couple recently had a daughter, and as they resumed work after paternity and maternity leaves, a nanny was hired to take care of the baby.
They had got CCTV cameras installed to cover the entire house.
A few months ago, the cameras had stopped working following which the technician was called.
A few weeks later, Bhalla was shocked to receive CCTV clips showing him and his wife at an intimate moment.
It was followed by a call in which a man demanded money for not releasing the clips on social media and pornography sites.
Shocked, Bhalla initially made some payments and asked for the clips to be deleted.
However, the demands kept increasing.
After the caller demanded an immediate payment of Rs 3 lakh, the couple decided to approach the cops.
Delhi Police analysed the details of the phone number from which the calls were made.
The IP addresses were scanned and the victim was interviewed for clues.
Finally, police zeroed in on the technician, Mohammed Rashid, and tracked him to Bengaluru.
Rashid told the cops that he had taken the access of the cameras during the repair and diverted the feeds to his phone.
He had made around 100 objectionable clips of the couple, of which around 80 were found on his phone.
Rashid, from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, earlier worked at a firm in Delhi, but recently shifted to Bengaluru and started blackmailing the couple.
Cautioning people against such crooks, the cops have advised people to get CCTVs at home repaired only through authorised service personnel.