Avoid app date bait or pay inflated bill: Cafe manager arrested for running racket

The manager of a cafe on Elgin Road has been arrested for allegedly being part of a racket that engaged women to open fake accounts on dating apps, lure men to the cafe where they would be forced to pay inflated bills that would run into tens of thousands of rupees, police said.

Kolkata Police’s cyber police station arrested the manager, Ranapati Paswan, a resident of 14/G Lindsey Street, for allegedly having direct complicity with the offence, police said.