Rumaiz Ahmed

CHENNAI: The Thousand Lights all-woman police here on Thursday arrested a businessman and his father for cheating and intimidating a Lithuanian woman.

The arrested men have been identified as Rumaiz Ahmed, who is a prawn exporter, and his father, Abdul Kareem.

Ahmed met the woman at a party in Dubai in 2017 when she was studying in a university there. She was into modelling too.

Later they stayed together as live-in partners. Ahmed brought the woman to Chennai, and she stayed in a star hotel here.

Trouble started when Ahmed refused to marry her when she became pregnant. He compelled her and got the fetus aborted. She became pregnant again. However, she refused to undergo another abortion when he asked her to do so. Now she is four months pregnant.

Ahmed’s father threatened her with dire consequences.

Following this, the woman approached Kanya Babu, who is the co-founder of an NGO called All India Movement for Service (AIMS).

Kanya took the woman to deputy commissioner of police of crime against women and children H Jayalakshmi. The officer conducted inquiries and forwarded the complaint to the Thousand Lights all-woman police.

The police registered a case under IPC sections 417 (punishment for cheating), 313 (causing miscarriage without the woman’s consent) and 506 (II) (criminal intimidation) and arrested the father-son duo from their house in Aminijikarai.

They were remanded in judicial custody.

