meet safely,
on purpose.

1. Meeting for the first time

Meet in public, the first few times at least — a café, a market, anywhere with other people around and good lighting. Get there and back on your own transport rather than one arranged by the other person, and keep your phone charged. And tell a friend the plan in plain terms: who you’re meeting, where, and roughly when you expect to be done — a two-line text is enough. If a first date wants to happen at a private home, or somewhere with no one else around, that’s worth pushing back on, not talking yourself out of. None of this is paranoia. It’s just what a sensible first meeting with a stranger looks like, and it costs nothing.

2. What verification does and doesn’t guarantee

A verified badge on Iraada means a person on our team watched someone hold a live pose in front of their camera and confirmed the face behind the profile is a real, present person — not a stolen photo, not a stock image. That’s the whole claim, and we want to be plain about where it stops: we don’t run criminal background checks, and a verified face is not a promise about someone’s character, history, or intentions. Verification rules out one specific lie. It doesn’t rule out every kind of person.

3. Red flags worth taking seriously

Trust the pattern over the excuse. Someone pushing hard to move off the app within minutes of matching, before you’ve had a real conversation, wants the conversation somewhere we can no longer help if it goes wrong. Someone who always has a reason not to get on a video call, or won’t agree to meet somewhere public and neutral, is telling you something even if the words are charming. And above everything else: any ask for money, a loan, an “emergency,” an investment tip, a gift card — anything. Never send money, or anything that turns into money, to someone you met here. No exceptions, no matter how good the story is or how long you’ve been talking. That one rule alone stops most of the harm we see.

4. How to report and block

Both are one tap, on any profile or conversation. Blocking is instant and mutual — neither of you turns up for the other again, anywhere in the app. Reporting sends it to a person, not a filter: a human on our team looks at every report, usually within a day. Accounts we act on get removed. You’re never asked to keep following up — once it reaches us, it’s ours to handle.

5. Emergency numbers, Delhi-NCR and India-wide

• 112 — national emergency number, any situation, anywhere in India.
• 1091 — Women’s Helpline (police).
• 181 — Women’s Helpline (national).

Save one of these before you need it, not after. And again, plainly: if you are in immediate danger, call 112 first. Tell us after — we’ll still be here.