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Bangalore

Bengaluru

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Indian Penal Code

A woman looking to start her life anew had a really bad start when the man she fell in love with turned out to be a cheat. Not only did she lose Rs 13 lakh in the process, the episode left her bitter.Suchitra (name changed) got divorced in 2011; she is 49 and her son from thegoes to college. In March, she decided to tie the knot again and posted her profile on Shaadi.com.Within days, a certain Yuvaraj Murgesh, a 50-year-old widower (at least that is what he told her), contacted her and told her that he found her profile interesting. The two decided to meet near St Mary’s Basilica in Shivajinagar.Suchitra found him dapper; he behaved “decently” and seemed to be a gentleman, the woman toldMirror. Murgesh claimed that he was a businessman – he said he dealt in export-import of goods made of iron – from Coimbatore. He claimed that he had lost his wife many years ago and had no children. Both spent time getting to know each other and Suchitra decided that this was the man for her. After promising to buy a house inso that they could start their life together, Murgesh returned to Coimbatore but kept in touch with Suchitra through phone.In August, Murgesh told Suchitra that he wanted to expand his business to Singapore and wanted some seed capital for the same. Suchitra readily agreed and gave him her gold jewellery worth Rs 8 lakh when he came over to Bengaluru. This time they met at the city railway station and Murgesh reassured her that he would marry her and take care of her son.Sometime later, Murgesh called her again and said that he wanted a phone. He was using an Android-based Lenovo and wanted to upgrade. She bought him a Redmi worth Rs 12,000. And then Mugesh bought himself an iPhone – he paid Rs 50,000 as down payment and asked Suchitra the remaining amount (around Rs 65,000) in EMIs. The demands did not stop there. Murgesh demanded more money and said he needed it for his business expansion plans. This time, Suchitra took a loan of Rs 4 lakh from a bank and gave him the money.However, in October, Murgesh started avoiding her. He wouldn’t answer her phone calls and didn’t even respond to her messages on WhatsApp. Still hopeful, Suchitra kept calling him. Until the last week of December when there was a knock on her door.It was crime branch officials from Mysuru who showed her a photograph of the man that she was planning to grow old with. They told her that the man she was in love had already cheated three women (2 from Mysuru and 1 from Hassan) and his phone’s contact list was full of women’s names. A complaint had been filed against him at a police station in Mysuru, they told her. Also, his real name was Vinith Raj and not Murgesh, they said, adding that his phone was being tracked for some time and her calls and messages had alerted them.“I decided tothinking about my son. I got divorced in 2011 and being a single parent found it difficult to balance work and taking care of my son.The accused promised to marry me but crime branch officials told me that he is a big fraud. They asked me to help them track him. So I even texted him saying that I had Rs 50 lakh on me and we could buy a new house. But he was smarter than I thought and didn’t respond to my message. Around three days back, I got to know that police officials in Mysuru have arrested him,” she told Bangalore Mirror. An FIR was registered at Jeevan Bheema Nagar police station under sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 420 (punishment for cheating) of the“The accused is currently in Mysuru jail. Permission will be taken from the court in order to produce him in Bengaluru,” a police official from Mysuru said. Suchitra is shattered. “I do not want to marry ever again. I’ve been trying to delete my profile but to no avail,” she said. The dream may have ended for her but the iPhone and bank loan EMIs continue. I’m paying Rs 15,000 in all; Rs 4,192 for the iPhone and the rest for the bank loan.”