Boyfriend promised to marry and now refusing
My boyfriend promised to marry me before making physical relationship. After few months I got to know that he lied to me about his age, his salary, his education, etc. He lied to me about his family status as well. I have all the whatsapp chats as evidence. These things did not matter to me but I still confronted him as I was hurt, especially about his age. He then told me that he wouldn’t marry me. Upon my constant request, he agreed. Things were normal then. I even had abortion twice for which I have all the hospital bills, transaction details, etc. Now 6 months ago I got to know that while he was with me he was also with another woman throughout. When confronted again, he apologised a lot. But I just threatened him about the money (3.45 lakhs) that I had given him while we were together. After transferring the amount he called me to tell me that he had realised his mistake and he wanted to meet my parents to discuss our marriage. I took some time but eventually believed him and focused on the positive. Our parents met and discussed everything. I had given him 3 lakhs again within these 6 months because he wanted a bike. Now last week he called me to give me a very lame reason and told me that he won’t be able to get married to me. I got furious and asked all my money back. Initially he hesitated but I threatened him to take legal action against him so that is why he transferred all the amount. Now, after knowing his reality, I don’t want to get married to him at all. But I want to know what charges can I levy upon him as he has wasted 2.5 years of my life where I was getting really good proposals but he made me decline all of them. He has cheated not only me but many girls and now my parents and I want to really see him getting punished for his bad deeds. Also, he is addicted to drugs like hash and weed.
Asked 4 years ago in Criminal Law
Religion: Hindu
Thanks everyone for responding.
Since I was lied about the person’s age, salary, etc. and a false promise of marriage was made to me before getting into physical relationship, can I charge him with ipc 376? Because some lawyers say that I am an educated woman and in this case my consent would be taken as positive. But I was lied to about personal details. Then shouldn’t it be no consent as it was cheating? Also, I can prove through messages and transaction details that this person’s intention was only to gain money from me and not getting married. So please let me know if I can charge him with ipc 376 or not? Thank you.
Asked 4 years ago