Daijiworld Media Network—Mumbai (CN)
Mumbai, Jul 22: The number of crimes being committed through the use of social networking sites is on the rise. Many such cheating cases are reported in the media each day.
Facebook, one of the popular social networking sites, is used by millions of users worldwide and has been useful to many. However, a handsome, smart, and dynamic youth used this network to fool more than two dozen young girls in and around Mumbai!
Vijay Bahdoor Khatri, 23-years-old, claims on Facebook that he is a Nepali citizen whose parents are in the USA while he studies in Mumbai.
Once he gets well-acquainted with a girl, he spends money on her, roams the beaches with her, besides taking her to multiplexes and holiday spots.
Soon, he confesses to the girl that he has lost the money sent by his parents for his expenses and college fees in some investment. Taking pity on him, some girls hand over their pocket money to him while others get the money from their parents’ and pay him.
In some cases, he even suggested that the girls get their parents’ jewellery and obtain cash for it.
After cheating his 25th victim, a girl from Andheri gave a police complaint as she got suspicious of his behaviour.
On Thursday July 21, Kurla police arrested Vijay and remanded him to judicial custody till Monday July 25.
This should serve as a lesson for the young girls who get intimately acquainted with their Facebook ‘friends’ without being aware of their background.