Mid-Day Impact | Dating app scam: Cops file 1st FIR

Updated On: 26 August, 2024 06:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan

Belapur IT professional, another man go to cops after this paper’s reports, claim they were cheated of Rs 1.28 L

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Complainant Pratik Jadhav outside the Amboli police station on Saturday with a copy of the FIR (right) The woman whom the IT professional matched with on Tinder

In the wake of mid-day’s exposé of the dating app scam, the Amboli police on Saturday registered an FIR against unknown individuals for defrauding a 34-year-old IT professional, Pratik Jadhav, allegedly in collusion with the Godfather Club & Lounge in Andheri West.

According to the FIR, Jadhav and Manisha, a woman he had matched with on Tinder, on the evening of August 10 visited the Godfather Club, where the staff allegedly inflated their bill to Rs 55,000. Jadhav, a Belapur resident, stated in his FIR that he had created a Tinder profile four years ago but hadn’t used it. In August, he reactivated his profile as he was seeking to get married.

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