Love, Sex, & Dhokha: How Odisha's 26-yr-old Archana Nag honeytrapped politicians, bizmen & filmmakers

The rags to riches story of Archana Nag, who was came from a poor family in Kalahandi once dubbed as the hunger zone of Odisha, is no less interesting than a script of any bollywood film. The 26-year-old woman was recently arrested by Odisha police last week for blackmailing and extorting money from rich and influential people such as politicians, businessmen and film producers with threats of making public photos and videos of their intimate moments.

According to reports, born in a poor family in Kesinga town of Kalahandi, Archana came to Bhubaneswar in 2015. In just around four years, she managed to acquire wealth around Rs 30 crore that includes her palatial house with imported interior decorations, luxury cars, four high-breed dogs and a white horse.

After coming to Bhubaneshwar, Archana reportedly started working in a private security firm and later joined a beauty parlour where she met Jagabandhu Chand of Balasore district and married him in 2018. It is alleged that she ran a sex racket while working in the beauty parlour.


Jagabandhu operated a used car showroom and knew several influential persons like politicians, builders, businessmen, film markers and others. His and Archana's photographs with influential persons including some MLAs had gone viral on social media, which created a state-wide hue and cry.

Archana befriended rich and influential people and is alleged to have provided them with feminine company. Police claimed that she then took intimate pictures of these powerful persons and later blackmailed them for money.

However, her plans to honeytrap a film producer backfired. In a complaint, a film producer alleged that Archana demanded Rs 3 crore from him after showing him his photos with other girls.

She was arrested on October 6 on the basis of another complaint by a girl who accused Archana of using her in this racket.

So far only two cases have been registered against Archana in this connection.

As per reports, as many as 50 famous people of Odisha were in the target list of Archana. BJP Bhubaneswar unit president Babu Singh has claimed that as many as 25 political leaders including 18 MLAs and ministers, most of them belonging to the BJD, were in Archana's network.

The life story of Archana is so intriguing that Odia filmmaker Sridhar Martha is planning to make a feature film on her life.