Four men arrested in UP for gang-raping man they met on dating app

Four men have been arrested for allegedly raping a man and blackmailing him for money by threatening to share a video of the act online.

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police arrested four men for allegedly gang-raping, filming, and blackmailing another man. The incident took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida area.  The four men are accused of gang-raping another man, after befriending him on the dating app Grindr. The four accused also filmed the entire incident and attempted to extort Rs 2 lakh from the survivor while threatening to leak the clips.  The PTI report revealed that the survivor is a polytechnic diploma holder, who befriended by 20-year-old Gautam from Sikandarabad and called him for a meet-up. When the survivor reached the location of the meet-up three other men were already present there. They allegedly thrashed and raped him and filmed the incident.