Overview

• Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar said the party will sell tickets for Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 to screen a CD of purported honey trap videos of senior state officials and ministers
• Opposition leaders allege the footage was used to blackmail key figures and helped topple the 2022 Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government
• In early July a senior officer’s wife filed a complaint at Mumbai Naka police station in Nashik after submitting video evidence linked to the racket
• Thane police confirmed the arrest of a woman accused of orchestrating the honey trap operation and sources have named a former Nashik party office bearer as the alleged mastermind
• Preliminary inquiries have identified around 72 serving and retired IAS and IPS officers as victims while Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis maintains there is no credible evidence