Karnataka man conned out of Rs 40 lakh by ‘IAS officer girlfriend’ he met on Facebook

A 30-year-old man in Karnataka has complained that he was cheated out of Rs 40 lakh by a woman who promised to marry him and claimed that she had been selected for IAS and would soon be appointed a deputy commissioner.

As per his police complaint, Parameshwara Hipparagi, of Sindagi in north Karnataka’s Vijayapura district, got a Facebook friend request from a profile named Manjula K R on June 29. They soon started chatting and got close to each other, and in September, the woman asked Hipparagi for Rs 700 saying her mother was unwell.