Indore (Madhya Pradesh): As the prosecution failed to present the list of witnesses on Saturday, the court scheduled the next hearing in the high-profile Indore honey trap case for April 21. Earlier, during the December 7 hearing, the court had ordered all accused to be present in person, but during the January 25 hearing, only their lawyers appeared.
The case took a new turn following the recent death of Harbhajan Singh, a former city engineer in Indore Municipal Corporation, who had filed a complaint that a group of women was blackmailing him with obscene videos.
Despite paying large sums of money, the threats continued, forcing him to seek police intervention. Saturday’s hearing was the second after Singh’s demise, raising crucial questions about the future of the case. His absence creates uncertainty about who will provide key testimony. During the January 25 hearing, the court framed charges against one of the accused, who was a minor when the case was reported, but her lawyer refused to accept them.
In December 2024, Special Judge Devendra Prasad Mishra, under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, found the then minor guilty under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code, including cheating, criminal conspiracy, extortion, blackmail, and forgery.
