A Singaporean antheral has mislaid a tribunal lawsuit to claw backmost hundreds of thousands of dollars that helium had lavished connected his ex-girlfriend portion they were together.
The S$468,000 ($369,200; £273,260) that Chander Agarwal attempted to retrieve from Felicia Lee was wealth helium had "willingly" spent connected her, the Singapore High Court ruled.
Agarwal "displayed a accordant signifier of showering [Lee] with lavish gifts" adjacent earlier they got unneurotic and would reassure her that helium did not expect repayment, Senior Judge Lee Seiu Kin said.
Agarwal, the CEO of a logistics company, met Felicia Lee, a erstwhile formation attendant, during a formation successful 2019. They were successful a romanticist narration from September 2022 to December 2023, the tribunal heard.
Their narration fell isolated aft Agarwal suspected Lee of having an affair.
Agarwal, who launched the suit successful March 2024, argued that Lee had "requested assorted interest-free loans" from him implicit the people of their relationship.
He claimed that these included S$206,000 successful recognition paper charges, S$129,000 for overseas trips, S$17,000 to prosecute a fengshui maestro for her apartment, and S$20,000 to wage for her beingness security premiums.
Lee argued that these were "gifts made retired of emotion and affection" and not loans.
In agreeing with Lee, the justice noted that Agarwal's lawsuit lacked documentary grounds - for instance, helium could not nutrient immoderate impervious that Lee had acknowledged receipt of the loans that she had allegedly requested.
"The grounds earlier maine intelligibly shows that the claimant, smitten by the defendant, had showered her with costly gifts during their relationship," the justice said.
"Unfortunately, erstwhile their narration ended connected a sour note, [Agarwal] became embittered and was determined to extract a terms from her."
The justice besides noted that Agarwal was "clearly a antheral of ample means who has costly tastes", successful opposition to Lee "who was not successful that league".
In galore substance messages Lee had "expressed her awe erstwhile [Agarwal] suggested costly gifts, and connected occasion, her spontaneous reluctance to judge them", the justice noted.
In concluding his written judgement, the justice cited English playwright William Congreve, who wrote successful his calamity satire The Mourning Bride: "Heav'n has nary rage, similar emotion to hatred turn'd, nor hellhole a fury, similar a pistillate scorn'd."
"This lawsuit shows that specified emotion is not the sole state of 1 gender," helium said.
In aboriginal 2023, different Singaporean antheral had filed 2 lawsuits – successful claims amounting to implicit S$3m - against a pistillate who rejected his romanticist advances.
K Kawshigan claimed that Nora Tan's rejection brought him affectional trauma and caused harm to his reputation.
The Singapore courts struck retired his suits. Tan aboriginal counter-sued Kawshigan to assertion backmost expenses she said she had incurred portion defending herself from his alleged harassment.
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