<p class="title">A 47-year-old woman, who owns a beauty salon and a health and wellness institute, filed a police complaint against her male friend for blackmailing her with private videos seeking sexual favours in Ramamurthy Nagar. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Based on the victim’s complaint filed on Friday, Ramamurthy Nagar police booked Paul Dinakaran (38), charging him for sexual assault and also under various sections of the IT Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The victim stated in her complaint that Dinakaran, a private firm employee, was her friend for two and a half years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He took advantage of their friendship, and barged into her house, sexually assaulting her at knife-point a year ago, she alleged.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dinakaran captured videos and images of her and started blackmailing her thereafter demanding further sexual favours, the complaint said.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>The threats</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">He threatened her saying he would post the videos and photographs on social media if she did not listen to him. Unable to bear the harassment, she started ignoring Dinakaran.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dinakaran barged into her institute and even harassed her in front of her students once. The victim then approached the police seeking action.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police registered a case against Dinakaran charging him under IPC sections 376 - rape, 323 - assault, 384 - extortion, 448 - trespass, 324 - voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means and 506 - criminal intimidation.</p>
<p class="title">A 47-year-old woman, who owns a beauty salon and a health and wellness institute, filed a police complaint against her male friend for blackmailing her with private videos seeking sexual favours in Ramamurthy Nagar. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Based on the victim’s complaint filed on Friday, Ramamurthy Nagar police booked Paul Dinakaran (38), charging him for sexual assault and also under various sections of the IT Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The victim stated in her complaint that Dinakaran, a private firm employee, was her friend for two and a half years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He took advantage of their friendship, and barged into her house, sexually assaulting her at knife-point a year ago, she alleged.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dinakaran captured videos and images of her and started blackmailing her thereafter demanding further sexual favours, the complaint said.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>The threats</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">He threatened her saying he would post the videos and photographs on social media if she did not listen to him. Unable to bear the harassment, she started ignoring Dinakaran.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dinakaran barged into her institute and even harassed her in front of her students once. The victim then approached the police seeking action.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police registered a case against Dinakaran charging him under IPC sections 376 - rape, 323 - assault, 384 - extortion, 448 - trespass, 324 - voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means and 506 - criminal intimidation.</p>