Hyderabad: A 35-year-old woman defrauded at least four men, including an NRI techie, by creating a fake profile on Bharat Matrimony. On Friday, when police took her into custody, she attempted suicide by consuming poison.
D. Malavika, mother of two kids, pretended to be a doctor settled in the US and lied to the victims that she had come to Hyderabad to claim her properties worth crores.
The victims transferred lakhs to her account as she requested them to help her fight the ongoing litigation connected with her properties. They realised that they were cheated after she stopped responding to them.
Hyderabad cyber crime police officials, who caught her on Friday, had to shift her to hospital after she collapsed at the police station.
Police said that Malavika, who was staying at Begumpet with her husband and kids, created a profile in the name of Dr Geetanjali.
“When the men contacted her with proposals, she convinced them that she has properties worth crores in Hyderabad, and that she will get them when she wins the case against her relatives who had falsely claimed ownership. The men were ready to help after conversations over the phone. One NRI named G. Prashant, who is settled in New Jersey, transferred Rs 11 lakh to her. But when he came down to Hyderabad to meet her, she vanished. Then he approached us,” said a senior police official from CCS.
Malavika put up a gorgeous woman’s photo as her display picture in her matrimony profile and wrote that she wants someone to settle with her in the US.
However, the police found that her real looks were completely different. Her other victims include a doctor from Hyderabad.
After the cops booked a case taking a complaint from Mr Prashant, they tried to track down the woman who was absconding. But, on Friday, cops caught her husband Srinivas and brought him to the police station.
After a few hours, Malavika came to the police station to surrender. While talking to the cops, she collapsed and was immediately shifted to Osmania General Hospital. When cops checked her bag, they found a suicide note blaming Prashant.
“She wrote that Prashant had harassed her although he had never met her before,” said a police officer.
Malavika’s condition is stable. Cops will arrest her once she is out of hospital.
