Honey trap case: judicial custody extended

Police said they wanted to record the woman’s voice sample

May 09, 2017 01:30 am | Updated 01:30 am IST - New Delhi

The woman accused of honey-trapping and blackmailing a BJP MP from Gujarat was on Monday sent to four-day judicial custody by a Delhi court.

Special Judge Hemani Malhotra remanded the woman to judicial custody till Friday after the police said they wanted to record her voice sample and might need her for custodial interrogation later.

She was produced in court on expiry of her one-day judicial custody. She was in police custody for five days after her arrest on May 2 by the Delhi Police from her Ghaziabad house.

During the hearing, prosecutor Atul Shrivastava submitted that they required the woman’s consent for taking her voice sample. The judge then marked the case before a magisterial court, where the woman consented to give a voice sample.

K.C. Patel, the MP from Valsad in Gujarat, had filed a police complaint alleging that he was drugged by the woman, who had then shot obscene videos and photographs of him.

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