Two men, including the owner of a cafe in northwest Delhi’s Hudson Lane, have been arrested for allegedly extorting around ₹ 26,000 from a customer who was lured there on the pretext of a blind date through a dating application, police said on Wednesday.
She invited him for a blind date and asked him to meet near GTB Nagar Metro Station around 6.30-7 pm, from where she took him to a cafe in Hudson Lane, police said.
The complainant transferred the amount through the second QR code and was subsequently allowed to leave, police said. The woman switched off her mobile phone and became untraceable after the incident, following which the complainant informed his father, who made a PCR call, they said. The police arrested the cafe owner, Javed , a resident of Ghaziabad, and Anuj Kumar , also a resident of Ghaziabad, from the cafe, Deputy Commissioner of Police Akanksha Yadav said. Both accused have no previous criminal involvement, police said, adding that efforts are underway to trace the woman, identified as Sanya alias Nikita, and ascertain the involvement of other persons in the alleged extortion racket.
A case was registered at Mukherjee Nagar police station under sections 308 and 3 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , and an investigation was taken up.
