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One held for robbing shopkeeper via dating app; Two absconding
Pune: The Faraskhana police on Wednesday arrested a 19-year-old man from Mangalwar Peth and searching for his two accomplices after the trio robbed a shopkeeper (33) after befriending the latter using a dating application.
The shopkeeper is a resident of Shagun Chowk on Laxmi Road. He lodged a complaint with the police on Tuesday morning.
According to the police, the victim had a dating application and one of the suspects contacted the victim over it. The suspect befriended the victim and asked the latter to visit a secluded spot in the June Bazaar area.
"When the victim reached the spot, three accused threatened him of dire consequence and robbed his cellphone around 6.35am on Monday.
The three accused, one of them with knife, used UPI application of the victimi and transferred Rs 60,000," said senior inspector Prashant Bhasme of Faraskhana police.
"We have arrested Wahid Razzak Shaikh of Mangalwar Peth after analyzing the UPI transaction," he said.
Shaikh was produced before a city court and the court remanded him in police custody until June 16, Bhasme said. "Shaikh was earlier arrested by the Bund Garden police in a similar crime where he and his accomplices robbed a Pimpri Chinchwad-based man near RTO Chowk. He was out on bail," he said.
