A group of men who had allegedly pretended to be the crew shooting a Bengali web series and duped a woman into enacting “bold scenes” has been arrested.

The cyber police station of the Bidhannagar city police rounded up the five after they allegedly violated the pur-ported contract and posted the footage as pornographic video on social media, police said.

The accused are Subhanjan Roy, 35, Milton Ghosh, 27, Umesh Chandra Nath, 26, Abhijit Basak, 33 and Debojyoti Sarkar, 26.

The 25-year-old complainant was reportedly told that her face would be blurred in the video.

“A few days after the shooting, the accused contacted her again and requested a second shoot in the hotel room where the first shooting was done. This time, she smelt a rat and refused,” said an officer.

Days later, a relative told her that her video had been uploaded on social media.

The woman lodged a complaint with the Bidhannagar police, based on which a case under the Information Technology Act was started.

“Pursuing the leads we got from the victim, we zeroed in on the gang and arrested the five,” the officer said.