New Delhi: Delhi Police Crime Branch has busted a gang of four persons who carried out fake sting operations and extorted a huge amount of money from doctors, nursing homes and path labs by using spy cams in as many as 50 cases.

Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch said today that the four included a woman, whom the gang used as a decoy to trap victims.

A doctor, running a path lab in Punjabi Bagh, complained to police that he paid Rs 40 lakhs to the gang who carried out the sting.

According to police, the woman Pushpa, 36, resident of Kishan Ganj, came to the path lab posing as a pregnant woman on Oct 3. The next day, the doctor's father informed that 5-6 persons having I-cards of a news channel came to the path lab, sent the staff out of the lab and demanded Rs 1 crore by claiming that they had recorded the conversation on sex determination of the lady's foetus. They threatened that they would get the video telecasted on the news channel, Yadav said.

According to police, the path lab owner's father paid them Rs 40 lakhs. Later a police team arrested two persons ram Sharan, 32, resident of Karol Bagh and Dhan Singh, 30, resident of Govind Puri, Kalkaji.

Yadav said, during intensive interrogation, the two told police they worked as freelancers for some news channels, and were running a blackmail and extortion racket.

Two other members Jai Kochar, 24, resident of Sec-3 Rohini and Pushpa, mother of three, were also arrested.

Yadav said, the gang used to target doctors and owners of nursing homes and path labs. Initially, a lady member would approach the doctor on the pretext of being pregnant and seek pre-natal sex determination test. If the victim refused, the woman used to ask leading questions, with the help of concealed communication devices from gang members stationed outside. The woman would record the conversations on spy cameras.

Police said, the gang members used to share part of the extortion money with a manager and a person associated with a news channel. All these informations is yet to be verified, Yadav said.

A Maruti Swift car, Rs 70,500 cash and electronic devices used for carrying out fake sting ops have been seized.