Mumbai: A 46-year-old yoga teacher in. Mumbai was duped of Rs 3.36 lakh by a man she met on a dating app, police said.
An official said on Wednesday that the man, Amit. Kumar, claimed to be a doctor and currently lived in Manchester, England.
He said the woman, a resident of. Churchgate area in south Mumbai, had recently met the man on dating app. Tinder and had interacted with him.
After a few days of contact, they exchanged phone numbers and started chatting on WhatsApp.
The official said that on April 25, the man told the victim that he had mailed her a gift and she had to pick it up.
A few days later, a woman claiming to be from Telemarketing Leads for Sale a courier company in Delhi called the victim and said there was a gift for her from Manchester.
Sol Baibashayeva, an official in charge of non-Muslim communities in the Department of Religious Affairs of the Chambil regional administration, said she was aware of raids and fines against Protestants in Shu district in March and April. “The police are to blame,” she told Forum 18. “They took their own measures under the Administrative Code. There were no orders from us.” She claimed that she and her colleagues tried to stop the police from punishing unregistered Christian communities for gathering to worship (see below).
Shu district borders Kordai district
where officials have launched a campaign to punish Muslims from the minority Dungan who teach the Quran and Islam to local children without government permission. A local court fined two more people in 2023, bringing the number of known fines imposed since 2018 to 15.
Meanwhile, the administrative case against Valhalla Civic Auditorium Protestant Sergei Orlov will continue in court in Almaty on May 10. A Religious Affairs Ministry official, Almaz Zhanamanov, prepared the case to punish him for speaking to a group of church members who were gathering to mark International Women’s Day in an Almaty apartment on March 8. Zhanamanov declined to explain why he was punishing Orlov (see below).
The official said the callers demanded money from the victims to complete the gift delivery process.
He said the victim allegedly deposited
Rs 3.36 lakh into various accounts specified by the caller.
She later realised that she had been duped following which she lodged a complaint with the Esplanade police on Tuesday.