Mangaluru
A case is filed in CEN Police station of the city, in which it is accused that a man took Rs 64 lakh from a woman on the pretext of marriage and cheated her.
The brothers of a divorced Muslim woman had uploaded her photo on a Muslim matrimonial site in 2022 with the intention of getting her married again. A man by the name Mohammed Farid Sheikh, a native of Pallapatti in Tamil Nadu responded and took the mobile number of the woman and expressed his willingness to marry her. The woman asked Sheikh to speak to her brothers.
Accordingly, Sheikh had brought Sadiq and Mubarak, along with him and introduced them as his brothers in a restaurant at Kankanady. He assured that he will invite the woman to his house in order to discuss the marriage matter.
After two days, Sheikh began sending messages to the woman on WhatsApp. He informed the woman that he has an app named Zoki with him which he himself has developed and it will fetch Rs 25 crore if sold to a private company. He asked the woman to pay him Rs 4 lakh, which is the processing charge and he will return the same within a month. The woman, who believed him paid him the amount. Later, Sheikh began demanding money regularly and the woman transferred Rs 64 lakh in different transactions over a period of time. When she asked Sheikh to return the money, he refused to pay up. The CEN police are investigating further.
