HYDERABAD: Crime Investigation Department (CID) sleuths have arrested a woman who posed as a doctor to marry a US-based software professional in Guntur. She sweet-talked the techie into parting with Rs 15 lakh cash.
Incidentally, the woman, V Deepti alias Dr Deepika Reddy, 26, from Brodipet, Guntur, conned several men in similar fashion.
On June 20, CID Cyber Crime Cell got a complaint from a US-based Non-Resident Indian (NRI) alleging that by promising to marry him, the woman had duped him of Rs 15 lakh. Based on the complaint, the CID police booked a case under sections 66-D of the IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, Sections 419 (Cheating by personation) and 420 (Cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The victim told police that he came in contact with the woman in April 2011 through a marriage portal, where she had posted her profile, indicating that she was Dr Deepti Reddy, MBBS from Osmania Medical College.
Soon, the friendship grew deeper between Deepti and the techie who used to chat frequently. This led to his deciding to marry her. A few days after they became close, Deepti started seeking money from the techie on the pretext of donating money to a poor child's brain surgery, setting up distance education centres under the administration of her mother and repairing her car. In all, she took Rs 14.32 lakh in just a month, Cyber Crime Additional SP U Rammohan said.
In the first week of June, the software professional arrived in Hyderabad to marry her. He grew suspicious when Deepti did not meet him at the airport as promised and stopped taking his phone calls. After failing to contact her for a few weeks, he lodged a complaint with police.
Using e-mail Ids, BharatmMatrimony profile information, Facebook and cellphone call data, police tracked Deepti and arrested her from her home in Guntur on Wednesday.
During interrogation, she told police that she had married twice earlier and had relationships with at least six other men. According to police, Deepti had first married 10 years ago to one Balasubramanyam, himself a cheat. Balasubramanyam, on the third day of their marriage in Tirupati, escaped to Bangalore. A few years later, she returned from Bangalore and married one Dhanasekhar, an engineering student from Kakinada, whom she had befriended through online chatting. They used to commit online frauds to earn a living.
After two years, she lodged a harassment complaint against Dhanasekhar and left him. A 498-A case is still pending against him in Guntur and recently she began blackmailing him to settle the issue for a hefty alimony. After the second marriage, police said, Deepti had relationships with several men, including a dentist, a businessman and a local PRP leader.
Police said that Deepti used to take money from all her partners and lead a lavish life.
"She used the Rs 14.32 lakh money taken from the NRI for renovating her house in Guntur, clearing hospital bills, visiting various tourist places, purchasing costly garments, mobiles, laptops and other electronic goods," the additional SP said. Deepti has two children from her relationships. On Thursday, she was produced before a court in the city, which remanded her in judicial custody.
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