Archana Nag’s husband Jagabandhu Chad gets bail

On Wednesday, the Orissa High Court granted conditional bail to Jagabandhu Chand, the husband of alleged lady blackmailer Archana Nag, who is accused of honey-trapping and extortion from powerful people.

Archana Nag’s husband Jagabandhu Chad gets bail
Archana Nag

Cuttack: On Wednesday, the Orissa High Court granted conditional bail to Jagabandhu Chand, the husband of alleged lady blackmailer Archana Nag, who is accused of honey-trapping and extortion from powerful people.

Jgabandhu is also a co-accused in two other cases: the ED case involving money laundering and another case filed at Bhubaneswar's Nayapalli police station.

Notably, Jagabandhu is one of the accused in a complaint filed by Archana’s associate Shradhanjali Behera at Khandagiri police station on October 2, 2022. She had accused Archana, Jagabandhu and her accomplice Khageswar Patra of trapping her in their racket, forcing her into prostitution to blackmail bigwigs. She claimed in her complaint that the couple extorted crores of rupees from numerous people by luring them into their trap.

On October 22, 2022, Khandagiri police arrested Jagabandhu Chand. He had applied for anticipatory bail in the Orissa High Court prior to his arrest from his Satya Vihar residence, but it had been denied.