27-year-old Sayli Kale had lost her job in the pandemic and was using the prescription for her mother’s sleeping pills to drug her victims
Creating fake dating app profiles, she used to make friends with both men and women from other states, and ask them to come to city before robbing them
Pimpri-Chinchwad police have unravelled an intricate modus operandi of a woman — who lost her job in the
pandemic — to honey-trap men and women through dating apps and rob them of cash, jewellery.
The woman, identified as 27-year-old
Sayli Kale of Sadhu Vaswani Road, was detained last week after a Chennai-based education career guide lodged a formal complaint on being duped. Mirror had reported how Ashish Kumar, the Chennai resident, was robbed of valuables after he had a drink offered by Kale at a hotel in Wakad. She was formally arrested by crime branch (unit 4) on Tuesday, said Krishna Prakash, police commissioner (CP) of Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissionerate.