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Kondhwa cops are dealing with an unusual case. A techie has approached them with a complaint against his wife, alleging that she lied about her engineering degree and well-paying job on the matrimonial site through which the two met. For now, cops have registered hisagainst his wife for cheating and criminal intimidation.The 32-year-old man approached the police on Thursday and claimed his wife had lied about many things. He said his mother had uploaded his profile on a matrimony site, where he came across his would-be wife’s profile and got in touch with her. Back then, she claimed on her profile that she had an engineering degree from a reputed college in Rajasthan. She also said she worked with a major player in information technology sector and was based out of Delhi. Over the next few weeks, the two families spoke and decided to take the alliance forward.The techie told the cops that even her parents maintained that she was bright at her studies and that she worked with an IT giant. Four months later, her father called him and said that she was going to be in Bihar for a few days and that the two should meet.The man went on to allege that even after they met, she stuck to credentials. The two liked each other and decided to marry. Later, she moved to Pune with him, but for several months, did not get a job.The husband alleged that after getting married, she told him that she would soon get a job, given her impressive qualifications and work profile. For over two years, however, she did not get a job. The husband claimed that she went out frequently on the pretext of job interviews. When nothing worked out, the man claimed to have helped her float her resume, in which she maintained her claim that she was an engineer and had worked with an IT major in the past.In 2017, the husband realised that she had gone to Goa on a vacation while claiming that she was in her hometown in Rajasthan. The final nail in the coffin was few months ago, when the man’s mother found wife’s original marksheets. He found out that she was not an engineer and had, in fact, been rusticated from an engineering college for bad behaviour.The man alleged that when he confronted her with the information, she threatened him with criminal proceedings. This is when the man decided to approach the cops against his wife. In his complaint, he also alleged that he found intimate photographs of her with another man on her phone. “When I asked her about these images, she said they were from before our wedding,” the man told the cops.For now, police have booked the woman under sections 420 (cheating) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the(IPC). “We are investigating the case. The woman in question has already given us a complaint of domestic violence a few months ago,” said inspector Mahadev Kumbhar of Kondhwa police station.