Intensifying the probe in the ‘Tinder’dating app case, the Commissionerate police on Sunday arrested five persons, including a bank executive and a woman college Lecturer, who had lodged counter cases against each other two days ago.
While the banker, a DGM of a private bank, was arrested on the charge of raping the college Lecturer after inebriating her, the woman and her three associates were apprehended for kidnapping, cheating and robbery.
Notably, the banker and the teacher had come to know each other on the dating platform on January 2 and exchanged mobile phone numbers on the very day. Later, both filed complaints against each other with the Chandrasekharpur police on January 10.
“After exchanging contact numbers on Tinder on January 2, we decided to meet next day. She came to my room, we consumed liquor and had some intimate moments. We clicked photos and made videos of our intimate moments on my mobile phone with mutual consent. Later on January 8, she called me and requested me to take her to a hospital saying that she was undergoing severe headache,” the bank official said.
“While I was taking her to the hospital on my motorcycle, her two associates intercepted the vehicle, thrashed me and forcibly dragged me to a house, where I was held captive for a day. They took away money and debit,credit cards from my possession, and also demanded Rs 5 lakh,” he added.
On the other hand, the Lecturer accused the banker of “harassing” her besides taking her photos and recording her videos without her “consent” while she was “unconscious”. “I had sought help of a person for deleting the photos and videos from his mobile phone,” she said and refuted the abduction allegation levelled against her by him.