Gang uses gay dating app for robbery in Coimbatore, three held
The Hindu
Coimbatore District (Rural) Police on Tuesday arrested three members of a local gang on charges of robbing people of their cash, mobile phone and jewellery after trapping them using a gay dating app.
Coimbatore District (Rural) Police on Tuesday arrested three members of a local gang on charges of robbing people of their cash, mobile phone and jewellery after trapping them using a gay dating app.
The police said that Logesh Godwin (19), S. Aswin (19) and S. Suresh (33) of Narasimhanaickenpalayam were arrested by a special team of the police. Two other members of the gang –– R. Prabakaran (24) of Narasimhanaickenpalayam and R. Vignesh (23) of K.K. Nagar near Saibaba Colony –– were arrested by the Saibaba Colony police in another case of robbery on February 5.
The Thadagam police received a complaint against the gang from a 23-year-old man hailing from Erode who works at Thondamuthur. His complaint said that the accused invited him to a deserted place at Somaiyanaur near Thadagam on January 22 using ‘Grindr’, a gay dating app.
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