{"id":1041162,"date":"2026-10-06T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041162"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:13:40","slug":"gang-lures-men-through-dating-app-grindr-in-coimbatore-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/gang-lures-men-through-dating-app-grindr-in-coimbatore-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang lures men through dating app &#8216;Grindr&#8217; in Coimbatore, arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: A four-member gang was arrested for running a honey trap using the dating app Grindr and extorting money from victims in Coimbatore. The incident happened on October 1, when they robbed Rs 99,000 from a 36-year-old man from Coimbatore city after inviting him for a meeting. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects have been identified as K Kaviyarsan (22), from Kattukudi Pudur in Sivagangai district, R Vinoth Kumar (32) of Kosavakottai, M Muthukumar (23) of Aathur in Ramanathapuram district and R Mugeshkumar (20) of Devakottai, Sivagangai district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: A four-member gang was arrested for running a honey trap using the dating app Grindr and extorting money from victims in Coimbatore. The incident happened on October 1, when they robbed Rs 99,000 from a 36-year-old man from Coimbatore city after inviting him for a meeting. The suspects have been identified as K Kaviyarsan (22), from Kattukudi Pudur in Sivagangai district, R Vinoth Kumar (32) of Kosavakottai, M Muthukumar (23) of Aathur in Ramanathapuram district and R Mugeshkumar (20) of Devakottai, Sivagangai district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041171,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041162\/revisions\/1041171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}