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Police Arrest Three After Thane Man Is Lured on Grindr, Stripped and Robbed

Police say the assailants threatened to post intimate videos to force the victim to hand over valuables.

Overview

  • The 22-year-old met a user calling himself Rahul on Grindr and was called to Mulund station before being led to a dilapidated building near the Industrial Training Institute.
  • Four men then barged in, abused and assaulted him, forced him to strip, filmed him and threatened to publish the footage online.
  • The group took his gold chain, mobile phone, watch and cash under threat of exposing the videos.
  • Navghar police registered offences under the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, citing sections 310 (dacoity), 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 351 (criminal intimidation) and 352 (intentional insult).
  • Investigators arrested Mushahid Kapadia, 20, Sachin Gaikwad, 18, and Aryan Waydande, 18, based on technical and other evidence, while two accomplices remain at large.