India, May 3 -- The Malabar Hill police on Thursday registered an FIR after a 60-year-old non-resident Indian (NRI) alleged that a commercial sex worker he befriended in 2019 cheated him of Rs.54 lakh by borrowing money under various pretexts. The police are searching for the woman whom he first met in 2019.

According to the police they have registered a case against the woman and her accomplices under section 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.

In December 2019, the complainant had come from California and resided in his Malabar Hill house. "He visited several places and then went to Lamington Road in South Mumbai where he met the sex worker, wh...