[India/KSA] Ex-partner defrauded me of 15 Lakhs INR + 7000 AED, committed rape, and is now threatening my family. What are my legal options?
I am currently based in Saudi Arabia, but my ex-partner is an Indian citizen currently residing in Hyderabad, India. Our relationship spanned 2019 to 2026, moving between India and KSA. Due to strict professional commitments, I cannot fly to India for the next 2 months. I need urgent legal advice on how to initiate cross-border financial fraud, sexual abuse, and criminal intimidation cases entirely remotely or through a representative.
1. Financial Exploitation (Total: ~₹15,00,000 INR and 7,000 AED)
Over multiple years, I entirely funded his lifestyle, international flights, Airbnbs, and business expenses for a startup we supposedly co-owned. I even paid his house rent for 11 consecutive months.
I recently discovered that while extracting this money from me under the guise of our personal and professional partnership, he was actively using my funds to take his Ex-girlfriend and other women on vacations (e.g., Bangalore, Manali) and buy them gifts.
I have reached out to his father via WhatsApp message to settle the outstanding amount of 15 Lakhs INR and 7000 AED. They are completely ignoring the communication.
2. The Double Life & Marriage Fraud
There is a history of physical abuse, coercion, and sexual assault without informed consent (including an incident where I was choked and violated while disoriented.
While sleeping with me, taking my money, and promising marriage to my family, he was running a highly calculated parallel life.
In Feb 2026, I discovered he was in an overlapping, physical relationship with another woman ("Partner T").
Simultaneously, he told Partner T that I was just a "toxic business partner" and explicitly detailed plans to completely strip me of my business assets or abandon our company entirely for her.
3. Third-Party Harassment & "Back Off" Threats
Throughout the relationship, whenever I demanded accountability or discovered hidden women, he systematically weaponized or allowed these women to target and intimidate me.
Upon discovering his parallel life with Partner T, Partner T actively threatened me to "move out of the way." (I immediately shut this down by sending her a voice recording of his confession to prior physical abuse before blocking them).
4. Sexual and Physical Assault
I recently blocked him and his associates after confronting them with the truth.
There is a severe history of physical abuse, coercion, and sexual coercion without informed consent.
This includes a recent incident in an Airbnb in Saudi Arabia where I was disoriented, having a panic attack, and actively resisting, but he choked me, pulled my clothes over my face while I stated I couldn't breathe, and violated me while I was frozen and incapacitated.
After I collected the evidence, confronted them, and blocked the entire circle, my ex-partner shifted to direct extortion.
He is now actively threatening me that he will "come after my family" if I take any legal or police action against him. His friends are also intimidating me to back off.
Evidence I Possess:
Bank statements and transaction histories showing continuous transfers throughout 2022 to 2026.
A call recording of him explicitly admitting to physical assault and 🍇.
Chat backups documenting the marriage agreements, gaslighting, and subsequent threats.
My Questions for the Community:
Since I cannot travel to India for the next 2 months, can I file an e-FIR, a cybercrime complaint, or execute a Power of Attorney (PoA) from Saudi Arabia to have a lawyer or family member initiate criminal proceedings for extortion and assault on my behalf?
Does his act of taking my money under false pretenses to fund parallel relationships and plotting to usurp our business constitute criminal breach of trust (Section 316 BNS / 406 IPC) or cheating (Section 318 BNS / 420 IPC)?
What is the best legal route to recover the outstanding 15 Lakhs INR and 7,000 AED? Would a formal legal notice to him and his father hold weight, or should I go straight to a civil/criminal lawsuit?
Given that I have a recorded confession of assault, how do Indian courts/police handle digital evidence sent from abroad?