A 36-year-old Indian Entrepreneur has filed a complaint with Noida Police accusing a woman and her mother of duping him of over 28.5 Lacs via matrimony fraud.

The 34-year-old woman, identified as Pooja Gupta, residing at House no.2260, Phase-7, Mohali, SAS Nagar-160059, Punjab with her mother Promila Gupta, who was also part of this matrimony fraud, allegedly defrauded a UK-based NRI and Entrepreneur of Rs 28.5 Lacs on the pretext of marriage.

The NRI Fintech professional has lodged a complaint with the District Court, under section-154(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 for the matrimony fraud.

The 36-year-old entrepreneur established his claim to the court with several proofs from voice calls, Whatsapp chats from the Indian Number 900877279, marriage photographs, Hotel bookings done by Pooja Gupta from her debit and credit card on several occasions to lured him by her “Honey Trap” from 2017 till November 2019 .

In 2017, Pooja Gupta met this Indian entrepreneur on the context of marriage through online dating app, while he was married and had a child. Pooja Gupta started to provoke him for a year to separate him from his wife and child and enforced an obligatory clause for not honoring the biological child with no rights to meet the child ever.

In 2018, finally the District Court of Saket, New Delhi accepted the divorce petition and soon after the grant of Divorce; Pooja Gupta started digging money from the entrepreneur on different context for 2 years.

Soon after the divorce, Pooja Gupta quickly got married to the entrepreneur in a Hindu Mandir at Delhi with a simple marriage ceremony and started to live with him on and off by booking several 5 star hotels in Delhi, Noida and Gurgoan and also at his residence without disclosing this to her family and friends. The entrepreneur did published several booking vouchers in front with the court and state police and on further investigating the case by the local police, discovered several CCTV footage from the entrepreneurs residence and from various five star hotels as well as the booking vouchers submitted to the District court.

In 2020, Pooja Gupta expressed the entrepreneur that her family needs Rs.28.5 Lacs help on the account of some family dispute at Chandigarh and assured him to refund the money in 3 months timeline.

After extracting the money, she became incommunicado. The NRI called her mother and realized it was a complete “Honey Trap” by Promila Gupta and her daughter Pooja Gupta. The mother Promila Gupta threated the entrepreneur and said she holds good connection with Police and Judges.

The NRI realized that he had been duped following which he filed a police complaint with Local Police as well as with the District Court against Promila Gupta & Pooja Gupta.

After the incedent came in limelight, FIR is registered under Section 120B, 420,421,406,506 and 495 of Indian Penal Code on the account of the seriousness of the crime. Police is further investigating the angle of habitual tendency of the Mother Daughter Duo to extort money by making new traps through publishing ads at matrimonial websites. It is now a matter of investigation that Pooja Gupta has married to how many number of people by this similar “HoneyTrap” and how many were reported in past.

From the sources, Pooja Gupta works with ‎Deloitte India (Offices of the US) as senior consultant, technically sound with Oracle cloud financials and uses several dating’s apps like Bumble, Jeevansathi, Tinder and many more to ploy rich qualified male bachelors. Furthermore, Section 494 of the IPC is also added to the ongoing FIR for Bigamy & Adultery where in Pooja Gupta is already married and cheating on her current husband and State demanded for 5 years of imprisonment for both the Mother Daughter Duo.

Astonishingly the father of Pooja Gupta, Mr.Raj Kumar Gupta, resident of Phase-7, Mohali Chandigarh is allegedly for defrauding another victim Mr.Rajsh for Rs.1.20 Crore in a similar context and the case is now passed on to the Economic Offences Wing of Chandigarh Police at sector 17 due to the criminal severity and is been monitored by the Offices of Superintendent of Police, Chandigarh

"Prima facie, the girl duped the man in context of holding wife’s position and run away with the money. FIR is registered however no arrests have been made so far. Said the Local Police officials.