Navi Mumbai: Kharghar Woman Duped Of ₹2.47 Lakh By Fake Engineer On Matrimonial Site; Police Launch Manhunt

Kharghar police are on look out of an ‘engineer’ who allegedly cheated a lady engineer with Cidco by promising marriage. The 32 year old lady who had registered herself on matrimonial site had got an alliance of a 33 year old man who identified himself as Shashidhar Dilip Kumar Jere.

The victim, a resident of Kharghar, had met Jere in the month of April this year via matrimonial site and then eventually met in a restaurant in Vashi to take the alliance further. Jere had told her that he was an engineer from Bangalore and his family was there. He also told that he in the process of starting a business. After few days, he told her that he required financial help to start the business. In span of a month, he took Rs 2.47 lakh from her. “The accused then asked her to apply for a loan of Rs 20 lakh. She had already closed her fixed deposits for giving him the money and she was not interested in lending him any more money and she denied to give further,” a police officer from Kharghar police station said.

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He had took the money by promising her to return the money in few days and as he did not return, she started asking the money back. He kept giving vague reasons and started avoinding her. He then told her that he was at his home town and would give her the money once he comes back. He stopped taking her calls and that is when she started growing suspicious about him. She then found that in the year 2020, he was booked in Karnataka for a rape and a cheating case. She also found that he had multiple profile on matrimonial website under various names. After realising the fraud, she contacted Kharghar police and registered a case against him.