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A 33-year-old man working for an IT company in Pune has been scammed of 91.75 lakh rupees after a woman lured him into marriage through a matrimonial website and made him invest the money in a business.
The man, a resident of Adarsh Nagar in Dehu Road, filed a complaint at Dehu Road Police Station of Pimpri-Chinchwad Police.
The unidentified woman and her assistants were booked by the police under sections 34 (common intent) and 420 (fraud) of the Indian Penal Code and under the relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.
According to the police, the man contacted the accused woman on a marriage website in February this year. The woman lured him in with the assurance of marrying him and they soon began talking to each other on the phone.
Police said the woman had asked the complainant to invest in “coin” trading so that they would have a bright future after marriage. The complainant believed her and took loans from several banks and also from “Loans App”. The outstanding group loan amount was Rs 71 lakhs.
Since February, as instructed by the woman, the victim had transferred a total of Rs. “. However, he did not receive any returns.
Police said the woman asked him to invest an additional 10,000 rupees to get returns. The complainant transferred Rs 3.95 lakh and another Rs 1.8 lakh to his online bank account but did not get his money back. It was then that he realized that he had been deceived and filed a complaint with the police.
Police Inspector DP Suriyawanshi, who is investigating the case, said, “The accused woman told the complainant that she is a resident of Malaysia. She made the complainant transfer money to different bank accounts with an assurance of marrying him… Further investigations are ongoing.”
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