The accused were captured by the police.
Ghaziabad: Kaushambi Police Station of Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district arrested a total of 8 people, including 5 girls, while exposing the scam in the name of meeting girls through a dating app. According to information provided by the police, the accused used to invite people to cafes through dating apps to meet girls and charged more than food. When the customer refused to pay the bill, they took him hostage and demanded money. After receiving the complaint regarding this matter, the police arrested 8 people, including 5 girls.
‘Held hostage for not paying bills’
According to information provided by the police, a person named Vikas Gupta, a resident of Dayalpur, Delhi, had lodged a complaint on Tuesday alleging an attempt was made to extort an amount more than the cost of food from him on the pretext of inviting girls to meet him through from a dating app. He alleged that for not paying the bill they took him hostage and demanded money. Acting on the complaint, Kaushambi police arrested 3 youths named Khalid alias Imran, a resident of Sahibabad, Nadeem, a resident of Shastri Park, Delhi, and Sumit, a resident of Kalyanpuri, Delhi, and 5 girls.
The accused revealed the whole story during interrogation.
When questioned by the police, the arrested accused, the accused and the cafe owner said that they used to invite boys to their cafe in order to meet the girls who worked in their cafe by talking to them through dating apps. If a child came to the cafe, you would charge 5 to 6 times the price of the item they ordered. The accused said during interrogation that when they did not pay the bill, they took hostages and demanded money. After Vikas Gupta, a resident of Dayalpur, complained to the police, the entire fraud was exposed and the accused were arrested.
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