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They had got into a tiff while having dinner and he didn’t want the evening to end on a sour note. In a bid to pacify her, Mohsin (name changed) stopped his car a few metres ahead of Pooja’s (name changed) paying guest accommodation in Mangalore city on Wednesday night and was calming her down when, in a matter of seconds, night-long horror descended on them. Taking the two by surprise, a bike with three men and an autorickshaw with two more men materialised in front of them. The strangers forced themselves inside the car, blindfolded the two and sped away. Even before they knew it, college mates Mohsin and Pooja had been trapped in a pornography racket full of sleaze and blackmail. Apart from moral policing, Mangalore is fast gaining the disrepute for being a porn-film producing hub.Thetook them to a house in an isolated area and forced the two students to make out in front of mobile cameras they had held. “If you don’t want the porn videos to be uploaded on the Internet, shell out Rs 25 lakh” was the threat handed out to the victims, who are students of a prominent college.According to the statement given to the police, Mohsin and Pooja have said they have known each other for the past three months. On Wednesday, they drove to the beach, ate out and had just reached her paying guest accommodation around 11pm when they were surrounded by the gang. When Mohsin got out, an argument broke out between both sides. After prising out details about the two, including their religions, they abused Mohsin, and then forced themselves into the car.The boy and thewere blindfolded and driven for what they believe would have been nearly 40 minutes before they reached an abandoned, old house. From what little they saw, the victims gathered that the surroundings where the house was located resembled a forested area and there was a pond nearby. They say a quarry could also have been present.The gang chose a corner room with hardly any furniture to strip their victims of dignity and subject them to vile abuse. The victims have said several liquor bottles were strewn around and the entire place was filled with cigarette smoke. They thrashed Mohsin mercilessly and then asked him to kiss Pooja in front of three mobile cameras. When the two refused, they threatened Mohsin that if he didn’t, they would force themselves on Pooja.Things got worse as the gang forced the duo to strip and made them havewith each other, while heaping abuse at them all the while. A gang member kept molesting Pooja too. Once the act was over, the two were taken back to a car, guarded by three men inside and two outside.Around 3 am, two gang members with Rs 500 ventured out to buy diesel. They returned nearly an hour later with some water and biscuits. They offered some food to the victims too. Then the negotiations and blackmail began.They demanded Rs 25 lakh in return for the clip. Pooja fished out the few hundreds she had on her and offered her gold ring. But there were no takers. After a lot of pleading and bargaining, the gang scaled down their demand to Rs 10 lakh, and later to Rs 5 lakh.The gang first thought they would release Mohsin to arrange for the money, but after much debate, released Pooja instead. They threatened they would kill Mohsin if Pooja did not return with the ransom. They dropped her near a prominent junction in the city. Pooja immediately went to the cops and alerted them.A plan was made and Pooja offered money to the gang under police surveillance. The gang was in constant contact with her through Mohsin’s mobile phone. But just as the cops were closing in on them, they managed to give police the slip. On realising the cops were on their trail, they pushed Mohsin out of a moving car in a neighbouring taluk. The locals took him to a nearby police station. His hand was fractured and face swollen and he was bruised.The police are confident of nabbing the culprits soon. “We have secured important leads and the accused will be nabbed at the earliest,” a senior police officer said.A senior police officer said they suspected the involvement of organised porn gangs operating in the Karnataka-Kerala-Goa coastal belt as they were home to several educational institutions.