An organized gang is honey-trapping youth and robbing them in clubs through dating apps across the Yamuna. file photo
Shujauddin, East Delhi. The terror of gangs operating through dating apps across Yamuna is more than that of traditional gangsters. These women trap young men on apps, invite them to clubs and bars, where they rob and brutally beat them.
This gang is spreading terror in Shahdara district. The business of extortion through honeytrap is flourishing in many clubs of Cross River Mall and Anand Vihar. These bars have become dens of extortion.
This gang is doing its work in an organized manner. In the last two months, about ten such cases have been reported across Yamuna. It is alleged that the network of this gang extends from public representatives to police officers. This is the reason why no action is being taken against them.
Using various dating apps including Tinder, gang members are targeting young men with the help of young women. Most of the bars and clubs across the Yamuna are in Cross River Mall, Anand Vihar and Vivek Vihar areas. After just a few days of friendship on the app, women invite young men to meet them at a club.
Then they rack up huge food bills. If the young man refuses to pay the bill, he is held hostage, beaten and forced to pay the money.
One victim said he met a woman on a dating app in early January. The woman called him to meet her at a club in Anand Vihar. He drank cold drink and the woman smoked hookah. The bill came to Rs 60,000. When he refused to pay, the club owner tore his clothes, beat him and extorted the money. The police appear helpless and unsuccessful in front of these gangs. Another challenge is that many young victims are not coming forward due to fear of embarrassment.
The young man says that his wife traps young men through dating apps and sends them to clubs and bars, in return for which she gets commission.
Many cases of extortion from youth through honeytrap have come to light in clubs and bars. Amidst these incidents a young man reached Anand Vihar police station. The information given by the young man to the police was shocking. The young man, a resident of Mansarovar Park and a cab driver by profession, told the police that his wife worked for an extortion gang operating in clubs. She contacts young boys using dating apps and traps them.
Instead of sending her own photos, she sends photos of gang girls who then run up huge bills for those boys in the clubs. The boy claimed that his wife gets five percent of the money recovered from each victim.
Fifty percent goes to the owner of the club or bar, and ten percent goes to the girl who foots the boy's food bill. He described a man named Pankaj as the leader of the gang. As evidence, the boy gave the police the gang's phone number and photographs of the girls involved in the gang.
Police have identified those involved in the extortion incident at Mexico Club in Cross River Mall. Search operation is going on for his arrest.-Prashant Gautam, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Shahdara District.
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