A 32-year-old woman and two others were arrested by Gurugram police for duping more than 10 men of over Rs 30 lakh. The woman allegedly befriended the victims through a dating app, the police said on Thursday.
Notably, the accused, who has been identified as Surbhi Gupta alias Payal alias Sakshi, is an MBA graduate from an institution in London. She was arrested from her residence on October 12 and was sent to judicial custody by a court on Thursday after her seven-day police remand ended.
According to the police, the woman did her MBA from the United Kingdom after completing her graduation from Delhi University. She had worked with many multinational companies before forming a gang to dupe people.
During the police interrogation, the accused woman said that met over 10 men through the dating app and defrauded them of more than Rs 10 lakh in the period of two months.
The scam came to light for the first time on October 10 when a man from Gurugram’s Sector 29 filed a complaint about being robbed by a woman he met through dating app Bumble.
The victim also told police that the woman called him up and asked to meet after which he picked her up from near a bar in Sector 47 in Gurugram.
“Then we bought some liquor from a nearby shop and came to my house. At home, she sent me to the kitchen on the pretext of getting ice and at the same time she mixed some intoxicating substance in my drink and I became unconscious,” the man said in his complaint.
“The effect of the drug was so severe that I woke up in the morning on October 3 and I found the woman missing along with my gold chain, iPhone 14 Pro, Rs 10,000 cash, credits and debit cards. When I checked, Rs 1.78 lakh was also found withdrawn through credit and debit cards,” the victim told police.
Based on the man’s complaint, the police filed an FIR and formed a special team to investigate the case. She was arrested days later from her residence in Delhi.
The police also recovered a gold chain, 15 debit and credit cards, Rs 1,60,770 in cash, two laptops, three mobile phones and a watch from her possession, PTI reported
The woman also named two other accused who helped her in defrauding the men. She told the police that made all the plans to defraud the victims.
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