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American woman files plaint against husband

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Jacqueline, who has filed a police complaint against her husband, Amit Kumar Mazumdar, a Bangladeshi national and software engineer in a firm in Bangalore, leaving the Additional Family Court in the city on Tuesday along with her three children. & #151; Photo: K. Gopinathan

BANGALORE, APRIL 5. The police have registered a case against a Bangladeshi national and employee of an information technology firm here who allegedly deserted his American wife and three children and cheated her of money.

The woman, Jacqueline (35), said in a complaint to the Ramamurthy Nagar Police Station that she had married Amit Kumar Mazumdar (40) in Mobile in Alabama, U.S., where he was a student. He qualified to become a software engineer and worked with information technology firms there for several years till he found a job with a multinational chipmaker in their Bangalore facility in August 2003.

Joint accounts

Jacqueline and their three children — Samantha and Kimberly, nine-year-old twins, and Rachela (3) — moved to Bangalore and lived with Mazumdar near Banaswadi.

The marriage was registered here under the Special Marriages Act at the Krishnarajapuram Sub-registrar's office. The couple operated joint accounts with banks in the U.S. and had an account with an American bank here.

According to Ms. Jacqueline's complaint, Mazumdar took his wife's signatures on blank papers in November 2004, apparently to submit them to the bank here to revive their account.

Jacqueline returned to the U.S. in December 2004 owing to ill health, to seek treatment and to spend Christmas with her parents. The three children were left behind with their father. She received a court notice from Bangalore to appear here in connection with a divorce petition filed by her husband. She said that while she was in the U.S., she went to the bank to withdraw money for travelling to India. To her surprise, she found the joint account had been closed and all the money withdrawn by Mazumdar.

He had also withdrawn money from a deposit account, she said.

"I managed to come to Bangalore last month with the help of my family and friends. I went to our house and Amit shut the door in my face and did not allow me inside. I then approached a lawyer, Sheila Ramanathan, and with her help found that he had obtained an order from the court that the children were to remain in his custody,'' Ms. Jacqueline claimed.

She then filed an application before the court to set aside the order. By mutual consent between the estranged couple, the court passed an order giving her visitation rights.

Custody of children

On Tuesday, she told the court she had been deserted by her husband and sought custody of the children since "he was not to be found at the Banaswadi house since last weekend." According to her, his whereabouts were not known; the children were left alone in the house though one of them was sick.

The police are looking for Mazumdar.

`Fabricated'

Mazumdar was represented by his lawyer in the court on Tuesday, who discounted Jacqueline's complaints as fabricated and were "only to harass my client.''

The Judge has posted the case for orders to be passed on Wednesday.

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