trichy trichy district police on tuesday booked a ninemember gang for blackmailing a 27yearold man with a video of his homosexual encounter with one of them manapparai police registered a case against m leo plaid 25 of laxmi narayana nagar his accomplices arun senthil yuvaraj arivu riyaz and three others on charges of threatening the man from manapparai on monday evening the man an it employee made sexual advances at arivu when both were was travelling on a bus arivu took him to manapparai pond at sandhiyagupuram around 730 pm as informed by arivu his accomplice riyaz and others were present at the spot the it employee and riyaz engaged in a homosexual act while the others captured it on their mobile phones soon after the incident the gang demanded 75000 from the it employee failing which they threatened to spread the video through social media out of fear and ignominy he immediately sent the amount to them through upi transfer on tuesday he took up the issue with manapparai police subinspector pradeep investigated the case and identified six of the accused police managed to arrest leo plaid while the others are absconding police said they are on the lookout for the others