Bengaluru, Mar 26: A software engineer from Australia has asked the police to track down his girlfriend in Karnataka’s capital who allegedly promised to marry him but disappeared after borrowing Rs. 25 lakh.
Based on a complaint by Simon J. Burton, the police on Friday registered an FIR against Sangeetha S., 32, a resident of HSR Layout. She has been charged with cheating, extortion and criminal breach of trust.
Burton works for an IT company which has offices at Manyata Tech Park. He met Sangeetha in 2014 during a visit to Bengaluru.
“The complainant said that in February 2015, Sangeetha proposed to him and promised to marry him,” said the police. During their courtship between 2015 and 2018, Sangeetha would often ask him for money, and in three years, Burton claims to have transferred a total of Rs. 25 lakh.
Burton realised something was amiss when Sangeetha suddenly stopped taking his calls and her mobile phone was switched off. When he contacted the Bengaluru office, he learned that Sangeetha had left her job a few months ago.
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