A first-year medical student from Sir JJ Hospital in Mumbai was threatened by a group of men who forced him to send ₹10,000. This happened on March 5, as the student was having dinner at a restaurant near his school.
After eating, a man approached him aggressively and asked, “Are you new here? What are you doing? This is our area, don’t you know us?” The student didn’t recognize the man. The man then led him to a nearby alley and called two more friends to join them.
They threatened the student, saying he had to give them all his money or they would hurt him. When he said he had no money, they made him call his father, who sent ₹5,000 through an app called PhonePe. The student also borrowed ₹5,000 from a friend.
The men then asked him to scan a QR code on their payment app and made him transfer ₹10,000 in four payments. After this scary event, the student went to the Dongri police and reported what happened.
The police registered a complaint against three unknown people, looking into the case under different sections of the Indian Penal Code. They are currently investigating the situation.
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