SIT to probe honey trap scandal
- The Madhya Pradesh police constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe honey trap racket.
- The accused in the honey trap case were arrested on basis of a complaint filed by an Indore municipal corporation engineer Harbhajan Singh.
- Engineer Harbhajan Singh had alleged in the FIR that two of the women were blackmailing him having shot obscene videos of him with one of them.
- The extortion racket has sparked a war of words between the ruling party Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- BJP leaders claimed that one the accused Barkha Soni was Madhya Pradesh Mahila Congress social media coordinator, which was later denied by state Congress.
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