‘CASTING DIRECTOR’ HELD FOR BLACKMAIL | 27 April, 2019

Nurse Siddhartha Sarode, who used to pose as a casting director to lure aspiring models and actors by offering them break in films and TV, was recently arrested for blackmailing them with objectionable and morphed pictures of them. He was booked for extortion, threatening and criminal intimidation and also under the Informa­tion Technology Act. He was re­manded to police custody till 28th April.