Honeytrap: Software firm under lens

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh police have begun an investigation to check for possible links the recent honey trapping and blackmailing racket has with a private software company, which was hired by the previous BJP government to probe the Vyapam scam relating to irregularities in admissions to various medical colleges within the state.

A senior police officer in the know of things disclosed to Deccan Chronicle on Saturday that one of the key accused in the high profile sex racket is suspected to have used the same software company to recover explicit videos and audios, besides sex chats with victims of the honey trap.

The company is facing charges of tapping telephones of high profile people, including politicians, industrialists and media people of the state.