Youth dupes woman of Rs 60L, promising to marry her

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A youth allegedly duped a woman whom he met on a matrimonial site of Rs 60 lakh in the false pretest of marrying her. The accused, Shivalingesh, allegedly deceived a woman he met on the matrimonial site JeevanSaathi by promising to marry her. The incident came to light after the woman filed a complaint with the Maiko Layout police station in Bengaluru on Wednesday. As per the complaint, she met the accused Shivalingesh in December 2022 through a matrimonial site. The duo who started meeting thereafter decided to get married.

However, he concocted a story that his mother was suffering from a brain ailment and required urgent medical treatment. Over time, he extracted ?Rs 60 lakh from the woman. The woman became suspicious when she started looking into his background. She soon discovered that he had similarly defrauded others. Further inquiries revealed more information about him on LinkedIn and posts by his family members indicating his fraudulent activities. The posts by Shivalingesh's family described him as a ‘con artist’, who had been collecting money from unknown people claiming that his mother needed urgent medical treatment, including heart and brain surgeries.

The posts also divulged that he had borrowed more than Rs 20 lakh from his family members, Rs 50 lakh from friends, and another Rs 30-40 lakh from three banks, all with various fabricated stories. Seeking help from authorities, she wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that despite filing a complaint, the police have still not apprehended the accused.