New Delhi: A businessman has been arrested by Delhi Police for allegedly helping a 40-year-old woman who honeytrapped and blackmailed Valsad BJP MP KC Patel.

A special court had declared the businessman Ajay Kumar alias Ajay Pal Chauhan a proclaimed offender and asked police to initiate proceeding against him in this case following which he was arrested today for the conspiracy to blackmail the BJP MP. The court had earlier issued a non-bailable warrant against Ajay Pal Chauhan who was untraceable.Chauhan’s anticipatory bail plea was also dismissed yesterday by the court.

The woman was arrested on May 2 by Delhi Police from her Ghaziabad residence in this case.

Valsad MP KC Patel had filed a complaint alleging that he was drugged by the woman at her Ghaziabad house and obscene videos and photographs of him were taken by her.

The court had noted that as per the woman’s statement, it was Kumar who had arranged the flat in which the alleged sex video was recorded and previously also, such videos were made involving two politicians and substantial amount of money was extorted from them.

The woman, along with Kumar and one Mitrapal, had gone to the flat of Patel to extort money threatening that they would expose him by making the sex video involving him go viral on social media, it noted.

The woman had also approached a Delhi court, claiming the police did not act on her rape complaint against Patel, however her plea was dismissed.