Bhopal: Four structures owned by the editor of a local daily that covered the infamous honey trap scandal story were demolished in Indore by the civic body on Thursday.
Indore Municipal Corporation authorities bulldozed two hotels, a cafe and a bungalow belonging to Jitu Soni. Soni, who is absconding, has nine cases against him including those of human trafficking, extortion, blackmailing, arms Act and forgery. Police has issued a lookout notice on him to prevent him from fleeing the country.
Earlier, the police, who rescued 67 young girls from his hotel, has announced a bounty of Rs 10,000 on his head. He was allegedly running an illegal dance bar in his hotel, police claimed. The development comes in the wake of his tabloid, Sanjha Lokswamy, publishing stories in which transcripts of sex chats between a former minister in the Shivraj Singh government and a retired bureaucrat with one of the five women accused of blackmailing high profile people after honey trapping them recently.
