The idea of bumping into individuals on an app, after which assembly them in particular person, was by no means as common as it’s right now. However such ephemeral pleasures, of assembly somebody new, also can expose individuals to severe risks.
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The latest case of a trainer within the metropolis being focused by two brothers, who stole ₹3 lakh from him after going to his home, solely highlights the dangers concerned with courting apps. The trainer had invited one of many brothers to his home after assembly him on Grindr.
Although the schooling trainer’s case was labored out and the 2 brothers have been arrested, a number of such crimes, involving on-line courting, have taken place within the latest previous. In most of the instances, the offenders weren’t from town and had been residing right here quickly.
Deputy commissioner of police (Crime) Kamlesh Kumar Dixit stated the problem was changing into a problem, necessitating the necessity for necessary tenant verification.
It’s a date, it’s a homicide!
Solely final August, metropolis police arrested site visitors constable, Ravinder Pal Singh, 35, for the homicide of a 21-year-old that had taken place seven months prior.
Whereas initially assuming it to be an open-and-shut case, Cantt police booked a number of of the teen’s associates and unidentified individuals underneath IPC sections 302 and 201, and the related provisions of the SC/ST Act. The teen’s physique was discovered on January 14, 2024.
“When CCTV footages were scanned, his friends’ role in his murder was ruled out. It was head constable Ravinder Pal Singh who murdered him. Further probe revealed that the youngster was active on Grindr. A few days before the crime, both got in touch with each other on the app. On January 13, they had an encounter and later got into a fight. The accused spiked his drinks with a poisonous substance and made him drink it, leading to his immediate death. To hide his crime, the cop placed the body on a railway track near the victim’s residence,” DCP (East) Shashank Singh had stated then.
Wished a fella, acquired racketeers
In November 2023, metropolis police busted a gang of males who focused different males within the metropolis within the title of romantic pleasures or physique massages. The gang members, who hailed from Patna, have been residing in Lucknow in rented lodging. One of many victims, a resident of Indira Nagar, was thrashed and robbed of ₹80,000 and his telephone in a resort in Vibhuti Khand. The sufferer had deliberate a meet-up with a person on the resort after speaking to him on Grindr. When he went to the room, he was greeted by 4 males who threatened to ‘expose’ him if he didn’t pay them up.
The identical group had focused a person working as a coordinator for IGNOU at JNPG school by calling him in a resort room in Charbagh.
Acid assault on associate
In January 2023, a 26-year-old Gomti Nagar man and his mom have been attacked with acid by two males who got here on the former’s door. Later, police arrested three males, certainly one of whom was the person’s associate for eight years and labored as an inside designer in Haryana. The Haryana youth orchestrated the assault with the assistance of two of his cousins.