Bengaluru, Jun 1: A software engineer has been detained after a woman techie lodged complained against him for abandoning her after sexually exploiting her on marriage promise.
25-year-old Shobha (name changed), has claimed that during the courtship period, the accused took her to various places like Goa, Hyderabad and Madikeri and forced her to have physical relations with him. He later refused to marry her and dumped her.
Shobha, who works at a private firm and had met Shashi (27) on Facebook in 2015. Shashi, a resident of Roopena Agrahara and a techie too, claimed he was in love with Shobha and promised to marry her. They went on several trips and together and developed intimacy. Shobha also introduced Shashi to her family. In October 2018, Shashi and Shobha got engaged.
A few months after the engagement, Shashi started avoiding Shobha. He stopped taking her calls and ghosted her for a while. Later, he confessed he was not interested in her and refused to marry her. Shobha’s complaint states that not only did he trick her into having a physical relationship with him, he also borrowed Rs 3.5 lakh from her which he never returned. “He took me to Golden Heritage apartment and forced himself upon me. During our trips to Kerala, Hyderabad and Madikeri, he molested me at the resort we were staying at,” she stated in the complaint.
The accused has been taken into custody and an FIR has been registered at the Bommanahalli police station.
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