The Judicial Magistrate of First Class (JMFC) Court here on Wednesday rejected the bail petition of honey-trap and extortion racket accused Archana Nag, who has been arrested on charge of blackmailing Odia film producer Akshay Parija.
While hearing her plea, the court refused to give bail to Archana, who was accused of honey-trapping several influential persons including politicians, film producers, directors, businessmen and Government officials and extorting crores from them.
Parija had filed a complaint with the Nayapalli police in this connection accusing Nag of shooting his private moments and trying to extort Rs 3 crore from him. Enforcement Directorate has interrogated Parija twice in this connection.
Meanwhile, another accused Khageswar Patra’s associate Abinash Priyadarshi deposed before the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday.
Sources claimed that the investigating agency has planned to take Archan and Jagabandhu on remand and interrogate them again in this connection.
ED has, so far, interrogated five out of 15 persons in this regard. Film producer was subjected to marathon grilling for 12 hours on Tuesday. Swain also levelled blackmailing allegations against Archana.
Meanwhile, the ED officials are trying to solve the mysterious financial transactions of Rs 37 lakh between Khageswar and the couple.
Earlier, the Bhubaneswar SDJM Court had turned down the bail plea of Archana.
