Mumbai: Woman dupes bank executive of Rs 23 lakh via matrimonial site

A 31-year-old assistant vice-president of a multinational bank accused a woman he met on matrimonial site for allegedly duping him of Rs 23 lakh. The victim is an assistant vice president of the bank located in Powai.

According to the report, the victim met Radhika Dixit on a matrimonial site in August 2017 and both had exchanged their phone numbers. While Police claimed Dixit to be an HR professional in Mumbai’s leading insurance firm.

According to the report, Dixit asked him to gift her an Apple iPhone 7 for her birthday in August last year. However, the two could not meet on her birthday as she claimed that her father was admitted to the hospital for a foot surgery.

“The accused called the executive later and told him that she urgently required Rs 10 lakh for her father’s treatment”, an officer at Powai police station told The Indian Express.

“The executive had transferred Rs 4.5 lakh into her bank account, handed over a new smartphone and another Rs 4.5 lakh in cash to a driver she had sent,” the officer claimed.

At the end of August 2017, the accused told him to transfer another Rs 50,000 to one of her friend’s account. Despite getting lakhs of rupees, over the period of time she kept postponing a meeting with him in order to discuss marriage plans.

Somehow, she had agreed to meet him in Powai in February this year. On that day the woman came to meet him did not look like the one in her profile picture in the matrimonial site.

“The woman said she had lied about her name and had uploaded the picture of another woman. She confessed to him of having lied about her father’s ill health, apologised for cheating him and promised to return his money soon,” the officer claimed.

The executive sent several reminders to her to return his money. However, earlier this month, she allegedly refused to pay him, he lodged a complaint at the Powai police station.

The woman has not been arrested yet.

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