<p>Kushalnagar: Town Police arrested seven persons who were blackmailing people by wooing them into massage centre.</p><p>All the arrested are the natives of Hassan and were operating from Bengaluru, the police said. </p><p>Manjunath (29), C S Sandeep Kumar (25), C B Rakesh (24), K Jayalakshmi (29), S Sahana (19), Pallavi (30) and Abhishek (24) are the arrested.</p><p>The accused had created a mobile phone application link through which they would woo men for massage. When the men contacted the phone number, they would be asked to transfer money to a particular account and would further be asked to come to a hotel in Kushalnagar. </p>.Four held for smuggling gold worth Rs 65 lakh by spraying it on trolley bags at Surat airport. <p>When the men went to the hotel, they would be blackmailed to shell out more money. Many of those who were cheated, did not volunteer to submit complaint, fearing slander. </p><p>The police informed that the accused operated from Nelamangala in Bengaluru and had created a fake GPS location. </p><p>The real location was traced, based on a complaint by a victim. </p><p>Two teams were formed to arrest the accused. </p><p>DySP Gangadharappa, Inspector B G Prakash, PSI H V Chandrashekhar, H T Geetha, police personnel Ranjith, Babu, Uday, Ramesh, Sunil, Shananth and technical personnel were part of the team which nabbed the accused.</p>
<p>Kushalnagar: Town Police arrested seven persons who were blackmailing people by wooing them into massage centre.</p><p>All the arrested are the natives of Hassan and were operating from Bengaluru, the police said. </p><p>Manjunath (29), C S Sandeep Kumar (25), C B Rakesh (24), K Jayalakshmi (29), S Sahana (19), Pallavi (30) and Abhishek (24) are the arrested.</p><p>The accused had created a mobile phone application link through which they would woo men for massage. When the men contacted the phone number, they would be asked to transfer money to a particular account and would further be asked to come to a hotel in Kushalnagar. </p>.Four held for smuggling gold worth Rs 65 lakh by spraying it on trolley bags at Surat airport. <p>When the men went to the hotel, they would be blackmailed to shell out more money. Many of those who were cheated, did not volunteer to submit complaint, fearing slander. </p><p>The police informed that the accused operated from Nelamangala in Bengaluru and had created a fake GPS location. </p><p>The real location was traced, based on a complaint by a victim. </p><p>Two teams were formed to arrest the accused. </p><p>DySP Gangadharappa, Inspector B G Prakash, PSI H V Chandrashekhar, H T Geetha, police personnel Ranjith, Babu, Uday, Ramesh, Sunil, Shananth and technical personnel were part of the team which nabbed the accused.</p>