Close to four years ago, Chinese national Han Shen, a financial adviser based in Shanghai, was cheated of Rs 32 lakh by Mumbai-based businessman Ranjeet Jha. When she decided to fight against Jha, a city-based lawyer named Purvi Shah, too, cheated her of money. To this day, Han Shen is awaiting justice, even though the only progress in the case is a seemingly unending cycle of court summons, which neither of the accused have bothered responding to.

Shen and Jha met each other in 2008. In her statement to the police, she said, "I met Jha in 2008, when I was working at the State Bank of India's Shanghai branch. We became good friends. Then, between 2010 and 2014, I paid him USD 5,000 [approximately Rs 3.42 lakh] for his business. He'd also promised to marry me. But, in 2015, I realised that Jha had no intentions of returning my money or marrying me."