Gurgaon Police have arrested a Nigerian national from Mumbai for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 51,000 by promising to marry her. <br /> <br />Gurgaon Police have arrested a Nigerian national from Mumbai for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 51,000 by promising to marry her. <br /> <br />The Cyber Cell investigated the case following an FIR by the woman and John Ikena Oputa, a Nigerian national, was arrested from Mumbai, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Vivek Sharma said today, adding that police had seized five SIM cards and 12 credit cards from him. <br /> <br />John was produced before judicial magistrate Rajesh Sharma, who sent him to two days' police custody. <br /> <br />According to the complaint, the woman alleged that John had asked her to deposit Rs 51,000 in a bank account. He told her that he needed the amount as deposit at the Mumbai airport to clear Rs 18 crore he had brought from his home country. <br /> <br />Sharma said the woman told investigators that she had deposited Rs 51,000 after John had agreed to marry her. <br /> <br />She said John later asked her to deposit Rs 2.80 lakh more in his account, raising suspicion in her mind. She then filed a case with the police. <br /> <br />According to police sources, the woman came to know the accused through a matrimonial site. <br /> <br />A case under sections 406 (breach of trust), 420 (cheating), 34 (common intent) of the IPC and section 12 of the Passport Act was registered at Sadar police station, Sharma said.
