TNN | May 3, 2012, 04.33AM IST
PUNE: Additional chief judicial magistrate V K Yawalkar on Monday sentenced Shishir Sharad Puranik (32) of Parvati to four years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for dupinga woman lawyer to the tune of over Rs 1.48 lakh, by promising to marry her in 2010.
In June 2010, the woman's family had published an advertisement in a newspaper, seeking a bridegroom for her.
Assistant public prosecutor S M Kadam said that Puranik, claiming to be a paediatrician at a private hospital in Chinchwad, responded to the advertisement and expressed interest in the proposal. Puranik also told the lawyer's family that he had booked a flat at Sadashiv Peth.
Kadam said both families met and the engagement was fixed. Puranik extracted money from the woman on various occasions, then disappeared and did not respond to telephone calls.
Realising that Puranik had cheated her by making false promises of marriage, the lawyer registered a cheating case against him with the Shivajinagar police on December 7, 2012. Puranik was arrested on January 12, 2011.
Puranik was convicted of cheating the lawyer under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code.Link: Man gets four years' rigorous imprisonment for cheating woman
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