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Updated: Mar 03, 2017 20:56 IST

An army man was booked by the Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday for allegedly blackmailing a girl after outraging her modesty in Ramban district.

Gulab Singh Parihar, posted in Kupwara district, allegedly outraged the modesty of the girl and obtained her photographs.

He then prepared an offensive video and started sending threatening text messages to her through different mobile phones, an officer of the J&K Crime Branch said in Jammu on Friday.

Parihar allegedly demanded her photographs along with money amounting to Rs 5 lakh, failing which he threatened to upload her nude pictures online.

He also allegedly demanded from her, photographs and videos of other girls from Ramban for blackmailing them as well, the officer said.

After receiving a complaint from the girl, a preliminary inquiry was initiated and it was revealed through mobile phone locations that Parihar, with the connivance of other suspects, had sent vulgar and offensive text messages by impersonating as a blackmailer, the officer said.

A case was registered and investigations have started in the case.