Teacher killed in failed honeytrap plot, cousin among six arrested in UP

A schoolteacher was allegedly lured from Uttar Pradesh's Jalaun to a village in Madhya Pradesh as part of a honeytrap scheme. However, he was strangled to death there after he resisted being photographed with a woman in an objectionable manner.

A murder case in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district has unravelled into a failed honeytrap conspiracy that ended in the killing of a man, police said.

Six people, including a woman, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the case. The main accused has been identified as Krishpal alias Kuldeep, a cousin of the victim's.

Police said the victim, Raghavendra, was a schoolteacher by profession. Krishpal, described as a gambling and alcohol addict by the police, had accumulated significant debt and had borrowed money from Raghavendra as well.

When Raghavendra began pressuring him to repay the loan, Krishpal allegedly conspired with his girlfriend, Sonia, to silence him through blackmail.

As part of the plan, Krishpal and his associates allegedly lured Raghavendra to a village in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh on the pretext of returning the money.

After reaching a farm, the accused allegedly tried to take objectionable photographs of Raghavendra with Sonia, intending to use the pictures to blackmail him, Jalaun's Superintendent of Police Durgesh Kumar said.