Two students arrested for extortion linked to suicide

Pimpri police have arrested two BSc students and booked four others for extortion and abetting the suicide of a 21-year-old BCS student. The victim was blackmailed after being photographed in a compromising situation following a meeting arranged through a dating app. The victim paid Rs 35,500 of a Rs 50,000 demand before his death on February 24. He jumped from the Sant Tukaramnagar Metro station after exhausting his savings and borrowing money to pay the suspects. Police are investigating the case further, linking it to a similar incident involving a prime suspect arrested in Jalgaon. The arrested students are aged 19 and 20, and a search is ongoing for the four others involved.