NEW DELHI: A Mumbai-based man has been arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly blackmailing sitar player Anoushka Shankar over

her pictures, officials said on September 20.

“The man was arrested on September 15 and is being questioned by Delhi Police,” said a police officer.

Sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar told police that his daughter had got several emails from

a man who had some of

her pictures. A complaint

was registered by the police last week.

Pandit Ravi Shanker told police that his daughter had given her laptop for repairing to a company in south Delhi in February.

“The man supposedly copied the pictures from the laptop and sent her email demanding $100,000 for not making them public. We are ascertaining how he got the pictures from the laptop,” the officer added.