Four members of a Goa based family were booked by Mahila police station for demanding dowry over Rs 1 crore from a city based girl; case was registered by the woman police station on Wednesday.
According to the police, the accused Abhay Pankar his father Anil Pankar, mother Aarti Pankar and brother Vishath Pankar were booked for demanding an apartment, luxury vehicle and Rs 50 lakh cash from the victim who got engaged with Abhay Pankar in the year February 21, 2015.
In her complaint the 30-year-old victim claimed that after completing her M Tech went to Goa for job where she met the accused Abhay Pankar and they developed relationship and later decided to marry.
After the families of the two agreed engagement to the couple took place on February 21, 2015.
Initially, all went well for the few days but after few months Abhay and his family started demanding dowry and used to pressurize her and after she failed to accede to his demands Abhay stopped talking to the victim and refused to marry her.
After failing to convince Abhay for marriage the victim lodged a complaint with the woman police station. The victim claimed that the family own business in Goa and are well to do but still they started demanding dowry few months ago.
Victim has claimed that in the engagement lakhs of rupees were spent. The police have registered a case under section 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act and have started further investigation into the matter.