Syndicates are targeting Indian teenaged girls, luring them to take pictures or videos of themselves, blackmailing them into having sex and forcing some into prostitution, an official of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) has alleged.

C Sivarajah, youth secretary of the MIC, the country's largest party of ethnic Indians, claimed that his findings revealed that groups were targeting schoolgirls as young as 16, promising them love and marriage before duping them into posing naked.