BAREILLY: The Sambhal police on Sunday claimed to have busted a gang of seven people, including four women, who were allegedly involved in pornography and extorting wealthy men for money. The crimes came to light after a local jeweller, one of their victims, lodged a complaint against the perpetrators. All accused have been arrested and sent to jail.The jeweller was recently lured by one of the women to come to her house where three of her accomplices were already present. The accused then forced him to strip at gunpoint and recorded a video of him along with the woman . They threatened to make the clip viral if he failed to pay Rs 10 lakh.Additional superintendent of police (ASP) Pankaj Pandey said, “The victim had asked his elder brother to arrange money after narrating the entire incident. The brother, however, informed police about the crime and the accused were subsequently nabbed.”The miscreants were identified as Vishal Chauhan , Fazil Hamid, Sunita Singh, Mina Devi, Anjali Rastogi, Faizan Ahmed and her sister Saima Ahmed.“We are interrogating the accused to know if there were other victims who they have earlier extorted money from. Their modus operandi strongly suggests that it is a gang of professional criminals. We had earlier nabbed a similar gang operating out of Aligarh,” ASP Pandey added.Cops have recovered two knives, one country-made pistol with two live cartridges, two motor bikes and mobile phones from their possession.An FIR under IPC sections 384 (punishment for extortion), 385 (putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion), 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt), 392 (robbery), 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) and 506 (criminal intimidation) has been lodged against the seven accused.