Advocate duped of Rs 1.33 lakh by UK-based ‘suitor’

New Delhi: A Supreme Court advocate has alleged that she has been cheated of Rs 1.33 lakh by a person who promised to marry her through a matrimonial site. She has alleged that the man who claimed to be an engineer based in  the United Kingdom (UK), had made a fake matrimonial profile.

She alleged that when she approached the said matrimonial site, their employees threatened her of dire consequences if she approached the police in the case.

She has been in search for a groom for herself through a matrimonial site. She received a friend request from one Krishna Roy who claimed to be an engineer in UK. He then expressed his willingness to marry her.

When she asked the said matrimonial site about Roy’s profile, they assured her that it was a genuine profile. After confirmation from the site, the complainant accepted his request.

During the conversation on WhatsApp, they both decided to marry on August 2017.

Roy assured that he would come to India on August 25, 2017 and after marrying her, would settle down in Alabama Birmingham City, UK.

Rao impressed her by sending a birthday gift pack. Later, he sent a picture of packet of the gift items and told her that he would send it by Express Courier Service.

On August 16, 2017, the complainant received a phone call from a Mumbai-based courier firm and the caller asked her to deposit Rs 45,500 as custom duty for the gift items. Believing it to be genuine, she paid the amount online from her bank account.

The next day, she again received a call from same caller; this time he asked for more money, Rs 87,500 to get the gift items released. Upon Rao’s insistence, she deposited the amount. Later, they asked for Rs 90,000 more.

Sensing something amiss, when she spoke to the matrimonial site about this, two of its employees threatened her with dire consequence if she filed a police complaint.

Meanwhile, the police filed a complaint against the matrimony site, its employees and others involved in the crime.