Overview
- Konanakunte police filed the FIR on September 24 after receiving directions from the Karnataka State Women’s Commission.
- The complainant, a 33-year-old divorcee, says she lived with Abay Mathew for nearly two years on a promise of marriage and that he left on September 20 after her pregnancy was confirmed.
- Her complaint alleges threats to her life and the seizure of her phone before he departed with belongings.
- Police identify the accused as a Kerala native who worked as a physical education teacher and cricket coach at a private school in Gottigere, and say he is being traced.
- In a video message, Mathew denied the allegations and said he went to Kerala over a land issue, while police say claims of explicit videos and other alleged targets remain unverified with no material submitted.