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A 45-year-old existent property trader from Amruthahalli successful Bengaluru has filed a ailment with constabulary accusing a pistillate with whom helium was successful a live-in narration cheated him of implicit ₹1 crore, concealed her marriage, and aboriginal blackmailed him by threatening to circulate his backstage photographs and videos online.
According to the complainant, Raviraj A.S., helium came successful interaction with the woman, identified arsenic Soumya S., done Facebook astir 8 years ago. The 2 allegedly developed a adjacent narration aft she told him that she was undergoing a separation, and that she would wed him aft obtaining a divorce.
Raviraj alleged that during the people of their relationship, helium provided Soumya with wealth done cash, UPI and slope transactions. He claimed to person fixed her astir ₹1 crore, and besides handed implicit astir 500 grams of gold. Soumya had rented a 2-BHK location successful October 2025, and had identified him arsenic her hubby successful the rental agreement.
However, helium aboriginal learnt that Soumya had joined different man, Ambarish, connected September 4, 2025, which, helium claims, was concealed from him. He alleged that contempt being married, she continued to question fiscal assistance from him connected assorted pretexts.
The complainant said helium came to cognize astir the matrimony connected May 23, 2026. When helium confronted Soumya implicit the phone, she allegedly dismissed the contented arsenic a idiosyncratic matter, and spoke to him successful an insulting manner. He alleged that Ambarish aboriginal contacted him and warned him to enactment distant from the couple.
Raviraj besides alleged that, connected May 26, Soumya and Ambarish repeatedly called him and threatened to upload his backstage photographs, intimate images and videos connected societal media, and circulate them among his household members unless helium paid the wealth they demanded. He accused the duo of utilizing the worldly to blackmail and extort him.
Police person registered a lawsuit nether Sections 66(C) of the Information Technology Act, 2008, and Sections 308 (extortion), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 62 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.
