A senior police officer said that under Sections 420 and 406 of the Indian Penal Code, the FIR was registered with the IGI Police and investigated
Posted Date – Sun, 5/21/23 at 07:40 AM
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New Delhi: Delhi police have arrested a man on charges of luring and cheating on a 39-year-old woman on a matrimonial website under the pretext of a wedding, an official said on Saturday.
The defendant was identified as Anshul Jain (39), a resident of Gurugram.
The person in charge said that Jain is a high-quality, eloquent person with a British MBA degree.
“After losing business and leaving his family, he started defrauding people. He specifically targeted women through matrimonial websites, impressed them with his profile and then defrauded them,” said Deputy Inspector General of Police (IGI) Devesh Kumar Mahla .
The woman, identified as Vijay Laxmi, was a flight attendant for an airline and a Bengaluru resident. 00 cash and even withdrew Rs 58,000 from her ATM card.
The incident happened on May 7th.According to the FIR accessed by IANS, she got in touch with an Anshul Jain through the matrimonial website Jeevansathi.com for 15 days
before she met him.
“We started talking on WhatsApp. He introduced himself as a businessman from NCR and expressed his desire to marry me. Three days ago, he invited me to Delhi and told me that he would introduce me to him at a wedding family. He asked me to bring appropriate clothing and jewelry,” she said in her complaint.
When she arrived in Delhi on May 7, Jain picked her up at the T-2 IGI airport in his orange Tata Punch car. “We went to the Aerocity food court and had some snacks. When we got back to the car, he told me that there seemed to be something wrong with the tires on the car and asked me to get out of the car to check. As soon as I got out of the car, he ran away and took me. valuables,” the FIR read.
Laxmi claimed that Jain took 300 grams of gold jewellery, her mobile phone, three ATMs, Rs 15,000 in cash and her airline’s Airport Entry Card (AEP). He then transferred Rs 40,000 from Canara Bank and Rs 18,000 from ICICI Bank in four transactions.
“I am a cabin crew member of an airline. Now, I do not have an ID card or a mobile phone. Jain tricked and scammed me and fraudulently took the said items,” FIR added.
A senior police officer said that under Sections 420 (Deceit) and 406 (Criminal Breach of Trust) of the Indian Penal Code, the FIR was registered with the IGI Police and investigations were conducted.
“Jayin was arrested in Panaji, Goa and during interrogation he confessed to the crime. He told the police that he had sold all his jewelery to a jewelery shop in Karol Bagh,” the official said.
“In the case of Jain, the jewelery was recovered from the shop. He earned about Rs 1.2 lakh from the stolen jewelery and all the money was used to play games in casinos and hotels in Goa,” the official said .
