They bought alcohol and cigarettes to lure the vulnerable children. The accused working as taxi drivers or food delivery drivers would target the victims by offering them a lift, buying them fast food, and topping up their mobile phones to eventually make them believe that they were 'lovers'. Studies call this "the boyfriend method" or "the loverboy model", better known as love jihad or grooming jihad in India.
Time and again, the delegations from the UK that have come to India have faced Indian pressure to extradite Mallya and Nirav Modi, the sources revealed.
The National Crime Agency said that he had been talking to a juvenile boy in India online at the time of his arrest and encouraging him to give sexual photographs of a younger child in exchange for money.