A 20-year-old girl and her 4 male associates have been arrested for allegedly abducting a 34-year-old man in a automobile from southeast Delhi’s Nehru Place, assaulting him, and extorting ₹7 lakh, a police officer stated on Saturday.
The accused are Harleen Kaur alias Jenny, 20; Nabjot, 30, a health club and martial arts coach; Sanjay alias Joey, 28, a veterinary pupil; Rishabh, 25, a cab driver, and Sahil Chauhan.
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Deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Hemant Tiwari stated the girl allegedly befriended the person by means of a courting app and lured him to Nehru Place for a date on Tuesday night, the place her male accomplices kidnapped and robbed him.
The sufferer, in his grievance, stated that round 7pm, two automobiles approached him, of which three males stepped out and pushed him into one of many automobiles. “He was assaulted and choked, on account of which he fell unconscious. After regaining consciousness, he was compelled to switch round ₹7 lakh through UPI, ATM withdrawals, and bank card transactions. He was pushed round south Delhi and Gurugram all through the night time and deserted at Nehru Place round 9.30 am on Wednesday,” stated an investigator, who requested to not be named.
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Primarily based on the sufferer’s grievance, police registered a case below the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 309 (theft) and 140 (kidnapping or abducting an individual) on the Kalkaji police station on Wednesday. Particulars from the web funds led investigators to a cell quantity linked to the suspects.
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Through the interrogation, it was discovered that Jenny used to lure folks to fulfill at completely different places by means of the courting app, and she or he and her associates used to rob the individuals who got here to fulfill her, the DCP stated.
“Though no earlier case was discovered registered towards the accused, preliminary probe has revealed that the accused had focused and robbed two extra folks, together with a health care provider, utilizing the identical modus operandi,” an officer stated.
