Delhi: Youth held for duping by posing as rich bachelor on matrimonial site

A 26yearold man was arrested for allegedly defrauding women on a matrimonial website by posing as a rich bachelor police said on FridayVishal a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh pretended to be a rich bachelor looking for a suitable bride He used expensive cars to impress the victims they saidThe police said he allegedly convinced the victims to transfer money on the pretext of acquiring iPhones at cheaper rates for them Vishal is an educated professional and worked at a multinational corporation MNC After suffering losses in his business venture he decided to dupe women and earn easy money the police saidThe matter came to light after a victim who was duped of Rs 305 lakh lodged a complaint at Keshavpuram police station in northwest Delhi The woman who worked at an MNC in Gurugram and her parents had created a profile on a matrimonial website While looking for suitable matches she came across the profile of a man who claimed to be an HR professional with an income of Rs 5070 lakh per annumHer family liked his profile and sent him a request After exchanging phone numbers the woman started chatting with him on WhatsApp and Instagram In March 2023 he sent her pictures of expensive cars and asked her for her choice He showed pictures of some villas and farmhouses as his properties in Gurugram in order to impress her He also projected his welloff business of food chain in Gurugram the woman alleged in her complaintIn the process he won over the trust of the womans family and they decided to meet him He also offered to buy the woman an iPhone 14 Pro Max at a cheaper rate and convinced her to buy it in order to earn a profit He also convinced her to buy the phones for her relatives and friends she allegedInfluenced by him the woman transferred Rs 305 lakh to him through UPI in eight transactionsAlso read Mumbai Builder arrested for not delivering flats after taking moneyHowever after getting the money the man blocked her on social media and informed her that he had been involved in an accident and was admitted in a Jaipur hospital He stopped attending her calls and after some days the victim realised that she had been duped the police saidDeputy Commissioner of Police Northwest Jitendra Kumar Meena said a few days after receiving the complaint a police decoy sent the man a request on the same site He accepted the request and started to influence the decoy in a similar mannerHowever after the decoy asked him to meet the police nabbed the manDuring interrogation he confessed to his involvement in the cheating He disclosed that after completing his BCA and MBA from Delhi he worked as an HR professional at an MNC in Gurugram in 2018 He left the job in 2021 and opened a restaurant in Gurugram but that venture was not successful Meena saidVishal allegedly created a profile on the matrimonial site and posed as a rich bachelor He also hired a luxury car for 15 days through an app for Rs 2500 a day to keep up the pretence the official addedThe police are making efforts to trace Vishals possible involvement in other similar complaints They are also scrutinising his bank account detailsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever