Bengaluru Teacher Arrested For Extortion After Affair With Student’s Father
Bengaluru Police arrested the pre-school principal along with two others and sent them to judicial custody for 14 days.
Bengaluru:
A Bengaluru teacher was arrested on blackmail and extorting money from a student’s parent with whom she had been in an affair.
The Central Crime Branch arrested 25-year-old Sridevi Rudagi and two others – Ganesh Kale, 38, and Sagar, 28 – on charges of extorting Rs 4 lakh from Satish (name changed) and blackmailing him further for Rs 20 lakh, using photographs and videos of their relationship.
Satish, a trader, who resides in a western Bengaluru locality with his wife and three daughters, had admitted his youngest child, a five-year-old, to the school in 2023, reported the police.
He first met Rudagi while admitting the child and, as per him, she remained in contact, and they started messaging and video calling each other on a different SIM card and phone.
Finally, their meetings became personal.
Rudagi later extorted Rs 4 lakh from the father.
Later, in January, she demanded Rs 15 lakh.
When the father hesitated, she came to his house on the pretext of borrowing Rs 50,000.
Later, as his business met with setbacks, the father made a tough choice – to shift his family to Gujarat. And he needed the child’s Transfer Certificate.
This was in early March, when the nightmare came to an end.
As per the father, on arriving at the school, he was trapped in Rudagi’s office, with Kale and Sagar also there. The latter presented the father with the private videos and photographs, and then asked for Rs 20 lakh or else these would be shared with his family.
The father claimed to have negotiated with them and settled for a payment of Rs 15 lakh, with the first installment of Rs 1.9 lakh. But the demands did not stop.
On March 17, Rudagi telephoned him to remind him of the payment – Rs 5 lakh for a retired police officer and Rs 1 lakh each for Sagar and Kale, and the balance Rs 8 lakh for her.
Satish then reported the matter to the police, who soon confirmed that the police officer had contact. Rudagi, Sagar, and Kale were arrested and lodged judicial custody for 14 days.
