Four employees of the Haliyapur toll plaza on the Purvanchal Expressway here have been removed from service and booked for allegedly circulating an "intimate" video of a newly-wed couple on social media and using it to extort money, police said on Wednesday.

The case was registered at Haliyapur police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by Sub-Inspector Raffan Khan, police said.

The accused have been booked for making the video viral and blackmailing the couple, they said. The employees allegedly used cameras installed on the expressway to record videos and then extort victims.

Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) authorities removed traffic manager Shashank Shekhar, system technician Ashutosh Tiwari, system engineer Pramod Kumar and another employe

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