Karnataka High Court orders police to hand over details of woman who filed suit against 10 ex-husbands and partners

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has directed the state police chief to digitally release the data of a woman who has been filing criminal complaints against her former husbands and partners for a decade.

The court issued the direction while quashing criminal proceedings against PK Vivek, a coffee planter from Sakleshpur, Hassan district, and his family members. The coffee planter claimed to be a victim of the 10th complaint filed by a woman named Deepika.

“The police station where the complainant wants to report a crime cannot register it without proper preliminary investigation. This is to curb, if not stop, the malicious reporting of crimes against several men. Ten have been registered and the eleventh is to be stopped,” said Justice M Nagaprasanna.

In the present case, Vivek met Deepika at Hotel Lalit Mahal Palace in Mysuru on August 28, 2022 for a business transaction. However, within a month of the start of the relationship, she filed two complaints against him.

Vivek's petition included documents showing that Deepika had filed similar criminal complaints against several men over the past decade.

The court found that the entire incident mentioned in Deepika's complaint against Vivek and his family took place over a period of 25 days, from August 28 to September 22, 2022.

Deepika was absent throughout the hearing in the Supreme Court. The court also found that she had filed complaints against various men, calling them husbands or accusing them of rape on the promise of marriage.

After reviewing documents relating to other cases, the court found that she had not appeared in court to present her evidence and acquitted her.

“The intention is clear. It was only to victimise those persons who had nothing to do with the plaintiff. More than 10 men have fallen prey to the antics and tactics of the plaintiff, which border on the honey trap type of the plaintiff, through the aforesaid modus operandi. Therefore, I consider the act of the second defendant – plaintiff – as 'a decades-old saga of deception', directed not against one but against many,” Justice Nagaprasanna said.

The court further observed, “In view of the above, as well as the glaring facts set out above and the repeated insistence of the plaintiff to report frivolous cases at all times, I find it appropriate to direct the Director General of Police and the Inspector General of Police to communicate all the details of the plaintiff to all police stations so that the same may be available in the database so that they may be cautious when the plaintiff wishes to report any crime against any other person.”