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Turns out he was lying as he got cold feet 4 days before weddingA 29-year-old woman has approached the police stating that she has been cheated by a 30-year-old software engineer for calling their marriage off just four days before it was to happen. The woman’s family was forced to go to the cops because of the web of lies thespun and because of the expenses they had already incurred.The techie, VN Kiran Kumar, who works with an IT firm in, had gone to the US on official work. From the US, he sent a WhatsApp message to his brother informing him that he hadand he did not want to get married and spoil a woman’s life. His brother Chandrashekar went to the woman’s house and told the family to call off the wedding. But, when the techie came back home, his bluff was called when his family took him to a hospital on Old Airport Road and got him checked. They found that he was not suffering from any such disease. All this was after the woman’s family had already distributed the wedding cards and had booked a marriage hall. In all, they had spent more than Rs 15 lakh.Claiming that the act committed by the techie amounts to cheating, the woman has filed a complaint against him. The techie has been arrested and was produced before the court on Monday and has been released onKumar is a resident of BEML Layout in KR Puram. The complainant is a resident of Pattegarapalya Main Road in Vijayanagar. Kumar and her marriage was to happen on December 1 at Chikkamma Ramaiah Kalyana Mantapa on the Ullala Main Road. “When the woman’s family went to Kumar’s house, his parents were crying, and said they did not know what to do. Then the woman’s family requested Kumar’s parents to tell their son to return and to get tested again. After Kumar returned to the city, he was reportedly taken for the tests,” said an officer based on the statements of the woman in her complaint.The woman’s family spoke to the techie and his family and this time were told that he just did not want to get married. After this, Kumar and his family also allegedly stopped talking to the complainant and her family. “Kumar’s AIDS claim was false and he later claimed he was cancelling the wedding for personal reasons. The woman’s family have stated that they had distributed the wedding cards, booked the marriage hall and spent nearly Rs 15.70 lakh for the wedding. He was arrested by the Vijayanagar police on charges of cheating and was produced before the court on Monday and has been granted bail,” HN Dharmendra, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Vijayanagar sub-division told Mirror.Kumar and five others were booked for cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property (IPC 420) and cheating (IPC 417).