Hyderabad: YouTuber caught red-handed extorting money from family

Thanveer Ahmed, who runs a news channel on YouTube and Facebook, demanded Rs 1 lakh for removing the content about the family

Hyderabad: The Rein Bazaar police arrested a YouTuber for allegedly extorting money from a person after posting videos of him and his family on social media platforms.

Thanveer Ahmed (54), who runs a news channel on YouTube and Facebook, posted a video about a family and later demanded Rs 1 lakh from them for removing the content from the channels.

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One of the family members, Lateef, filed a complaint with the police and the Rein Bazaar police registered a case.

The police caught Thanveer red-handed when the suspect called the man to a lodge and settled for Rs 70,000.

He was caught when he took money from Lateef at the lodge.

The police alleged that Thanveer was involved in four other cases.