According to officials, Four were held for extortion money from youngsters on a Gay dating app named ‘Blued’
In New Delhi Four men are arrested by the Delhi Police who are targeting the youth on Blued dating app. The accused have been identified as Vikas Sharma, 26, Anshu Kumar, 21, Ashutosh, 23 and Shivam Kumar, 24.The gang used to extort money from these youngsters by threatening them to post their intimate and nude videos on social media platforms.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police on November 12, received a complaint from a 20-year-old man stating that he is in college and was chatting online with a boy dating for the last three-four days. On November 8, they both met at Dominos Durgapuri Chowk. Then the victim was taken to a private room, where they both got undressed. Till three boys entered the room and started making a video.
The accused then extorted the victim and demanded money from him. They took the victim’s scooty , mobile phone and fled from the place. In case the demand was not met, they threatened to post the footage on social media.
During investigation, the police team traced the location or tracked them and started analyzing the CCTV footage of the nearby surroundings. The victim’s scooty was found parked in front of a house in Ashok Nagar area.
Accused Shivam was nailed by the police team and he revealed that all the three other accused are at his home for a party. Subsequently, a police team reached there and captured Vikas, Anshu and Ashutosh. On probing, it was found that Vikas is the head of the gang and he along with others had planned to extort the people who are interested in dating on an online app.
Accused Vikas told police that they had planned that when the victim would undress himself in the room the other gang members would enter the room and would pretend to shoot a video and they would extort him on the pretext of making his video viral on social sites.
All the accused disclosed that they have distributed the extorted money between themselves. Accused has been sent to jail on judicial custody.
