Online fraud cuffs on Tiljala resident

A man in his 20s has alleged that a man he met through a dating app used his private photographs to blackmail him into sharing his ATM card and its PIN.

Mohammad Ghulam, who had introduced himself as Sahil on the app, was picked up from his home in Tiljala’s Shibtala Lane on Wednesday night.

Ghulam, an app cab driver, is married and has children. Police suspect he is part of a racket that targets homosexual men.

The complainant, a resident of Birati, works at an office in Kasba. He has told the police that he got to know the accused through the app and after a few weeks met him at Ballygunge Phanri. They had spent some time at a place in the Beniapukur area, he has said.