A 28-year-old HR manager from Andheri (East) was duped of Rs 6 lakh by a ‘UK-based’ man who asked her for the money to pay for an RT-PCR test at the Delhi airport. The man claimed to be one Hardan Gunbir from UK. He had befriended the HR professional on a marriage portal.

The accused called the victim and told her he had flown to India to meet her and said he had been stopped at the Delhi airport and asked to undergo the COVID-19 test and the yellow fever test. He said that these were mandatory for all flyers coming to India from the UK and claimed to have no Indian currency to pay for the tests, states a report in The Times of India.