FIR ordered against man for cheating fiancee, demanding dowry

An FIR has been lodged against a man for allegedly cheating his fiancee and her parents by taking huge amounts from them and demanding a dowry of Rs one crore, after which the woman refused to marry him.
The FIR was lodged after a city court order saying the records prima facie showed commission of cognizable offence calling for further probe by the police and tracing the accused who has reportedly disappeared.
"On perusal of record, I am of the considered opinion that the matter calls for investigation. Record prima facie discloses the commission of cognizable offences which call for further investigation. Recovery is to be affected and accused has to be traced as it has been stated that he has disappeared. Evidence is to be collected for which indulgence of police officials is called for.

"SHO is directed to register an FIR under the appropriate provision of law and furnish compliance report within 48 hours," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhanshu Kaushik said.
Following the court's order, an FIR was registered at Paharganj Police Station for the alleged offences of cheating under the IPC and under provision of Dowry Prohibition Act.
The 27-year-old woman's fiance had allegedly also cheated several others on the pretext of sending them abroad.

The court's order came on a plea of the woman and her father, filed through advocate Amit Sahni, seeking lodging of FIR against the man for cheating them and demanding dowry.

According to the petitioners, the woman had met the man in 2009 when they were both studying at a business school and got engaged in January 2012.
The petition has alleged that the man had demanded Rs one crore as dowry due to which the woman had refused to marry. It also alleged that the woman and her father had earlier moved Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a cheating case lodged against them by those persons who were cheated by her fiance on the pretext of sending them abroad.
The petitioners had contended that they were harassed by people from whom the man had taken money on the pretext of making arrangements to send them abroad.

The plea said in 2011, the man took on rent property of the woman's father but never paid the rent. He also took a loan of Rs four lakh from them in 2011 and later on some more money was deposited by them in his account, it alleged.
The plea alleged that the man had opened a company, in which the woman and her father were made directors and he fled after defrauding several persons.
It said Rs eight lakhs were spent by the woman's father in her engagement with the man. In 2013, he went missing and several persons who were being defrauded by him started demanding money from the woman.