The 27-year-old man related the ‘robbery’ to his would-be in-law when the latter wanted the wedding date to be brought forward.

To make his claim authentic, the reluctant groom lodged a police report that two knife-weilding robbers took the money after he had withdrawn it from an automated teller machine in Kulaijaya yesterday.

However, the police were not convinced.

They questioned the technician who eventually admitted having made up the story of the robbery as he did not want to get married.

Now, the technician is in a bigger soup.

He may be jailed for six months or fined RM2,000, or both, upon conviction under Section 177 of the Penal Code for making false report.

I wonder what he tells to his future bride or should I said ex…