A 23-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for posing as a girl and trying to extort Rs 50,000 from a south Mumbai businessman by blackmailing him with a video of him doing a sexual act.

The accused, identified as Anup Singh, is an agent of a bank’s customer service centre in Agra. He chatted with the businessman ‘as a girl’ on Facebook, recorded the act and threatened to make the video public if he did not pay up, stated a report in The Times of India.