An IT engineer, 28, has filed an extortion case against his would-be wife and her parents at the Charkop police station after they allegedly demanded Rs 50 lakh when he decided not to tie the knot.

The man opted to stay single after he learned that the woman was simultaneously seeing her ex-boyfriend and had been accepting gifts from him. Police sources said the complainant and his family met the accused via a matrimonial site in May 2022.