Multiple such cases have been reported in the past in which people have been attacked, blackmailed, sexually abused and robbed by persons they had met on various dating apps.DAYS AFTER a 22-year-old restaurant staffer was attacked and robbed of cash after he was called for a meeting by a man he met on a dating application for LGBTQ persons, police arrested two suspects who had forcibly recorded videos of the victim before robbing him.A First Information Report in the case was registered at Nanded City Police station by the 22-year-old man who works at a restaurant. According to the FIR registered on Monday, the complainant had been using a dating app for LGBTQ persons. He had recently connected with a person on the application and the other person had shown interest in meeting. On Monday, when the complainant went to meet the person, he was forced to get into a car.The two men in the car, forced the victim to take his clothes off, attacked him and recorded his videos. Threatening to release the videos, the duo forced the victim into making online transfers of Rs 8,000. As the police launched a probe, they zeroed in on two suspects based on technical leads. The two suspects Robin alias Shubham Kamble (27), a resident of Nanded Phata, Sinhagad Road and Omkar Mandlik (28), a resident of Vadgaon Khurd, were arrested.This was not the first incident in the recent past in which such an assault had been reported on victims who connected with suspects through LGBTQ dating apps. Last February, a 24-year-old man was attacked and robbed of his gold chain by a suspect whom he connected with throught a dating app for LGBTQ persons. The Pune police subsequently arrested two suspects and advised users of dating applications to exercise caution while meeting persons they connect with on dating apps. Recently, Pune Police booked a group of unidentified men for allegedly blackmailing a 24-year-old gay man to pay over Rs one lakh between August last year and January this year by befriending him on a dating app.Multiple such cases have been reported in the past in which people have been attacked, blackmailed, sexually abused and robbed by persons they had met on various dating apps.A police officer who was part of the investigation of the recent case said, “Probes suggest that these suspects register on the dating application only for the purpose of targeting people in this manner. In many cases people are afraid of coming forward with complaints, especially in the cases of LGBTQ dating applications. We are making an appeal to people to exercise caution while using the dating application, especially while meeting people in person. We are also urging people to come forward and report these crimes so that the perpetrators can be caught.” Click here to join Express Pune WhatsApp channel and get a curated list of our stories© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:pune