Wayanad: The Meppadi Police arrested 29-year-old Cheerathadathu Veettil Ashique while attempting to flee to the Gulf after threatening to release the naked photographs of a woman and attempting to extort Rs 10 lakh from her family.
The accused, a native of Kaithappoyil in Kozhikode district, was taken into custody at the Calicut International Airport at Karipur. A lookout notice was issued against him.
On June 22, Ashique allegedly WhatsApped the naked photographs of the woman's father and a family friend. He threatened to leak the photographs on social networking sites if they did not pay up. A five-member police team headed by Station House Officer K S Ajesh arrested Ashique. He was produced at a court in Kalpetta and remanded.
