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Pune: A 22-year-old man from Bhosari was assaulted and robbed of Rs20,000 after he met a person through a dating app at an abandoned room near mental hospital on Alandi Road on Sept 29. After receiving the complaint on Thursday, Vishrantwadi police arrested a 19-year-old youth from Yerawada on the charge of robbery . On Sept 29, he was contacted by a man of around his age, who asked him to meet near the mental hospital on Alandi Road. The officer said that while the complainant was with the man, three men barged into the room around 6.45pm. The accused then allegedly transferred Rs15,000 and Rs5,000 from his account to another account,” Kadam said.
Police sub-inspector Vikas Kadam of Vishrantwadi police said the complainant works at an automotive parts manufacturing company in Talegaon MIDC. He told police that he had been using a gay dating app to meet people. “The complainant reached there around 5.45pm and went inside an abandoned room in an old colony near the hospital,” Kadam said. The complainant told police that the accused threatened to kill him if he approached the police and also threatened to send his nude photographs and videos to his relatives. “The complainant approached the police two days after the incident,” Kadam said. Kadam said the police traced the accused using the UPI transaction. “We are searching for the other two,” he said.
His two accomplices are on the run. They abused and assaulted him with a plastic pipe. The man who had called the complainant fled from the spot. “One of the accused took the complainant’s cellphone, checked his bank balance and forced him to disclose his UPI password. He also stated that two of the accused attempted to have intercourse with him. He, however, refused. Following this, the accused took him on a scooter and dropped him near a bus stop at Vishrantwadi Chowk.
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