New Delhi: A South Delhi-based wom-an has lodged a case of cruelty, breach of trust and criminal intimidation against her husband, who claimed to be a scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Bengaluru, at the Saket police station on Friday.
The police has registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and has initiated a probe. According to the complaint, the accused, identified as Harveer Singh, who hails from Agra and lives in southeast Bengaluru’s Electronics City, had befriended the complainant in April 2016. Soon, the duo got married in June 2016. He had told the woman that he was earning a pay package of Rs 2 lakh as a scientist in DRDO, Bengaluru.
When the victim went to Bengaluru in July 2016, Harveer took her to a hotel on the pretext of his government quarter being under repair.
After spending a few days in the hotel, the victim grew suspicious when the hotel management asked for the pending bills. When she enquired about the same with Harveer, he allegedly threatened her not to reveal anything to her family else he would leave his job.
By the time the victim could figure out what was happening, she received a call from Harveer’s friend from Delhi who allegedly told her that Harveer had misbehaved with the Isro director and the authorities had filed Rs 2.92 lakh lawsuit against him.
With the sudden turn of events, the victim approached her father, who is a retired Air Force officer, and arranged Rs 2 lakh.
After claiming the money from the victim, Harveer weaved another web of lies and allegedly told her that he was going to Nasa and asked her for money. But, the situation turned grim when he came home with a gun and allegedly claimed that his friend had murdered someone at the office. He said that he needed to hide the gun as it was registered in his name and asked the victim to arrange for Rs 20 lakh.
However, this time Harveer ran out of luck as the victim had learnt about his modus operandi of extracting money and instead questioned him. Enraged over it, he allegedly beat her up brutally.
The victim also said that her husband used to sedate her food, following which he used to click pictures of her in compromising situations and later threatened her of uploading the same on the Internet.
