Selina Lum
The Straits Times
Sep 10, 2026
After breaking up with his girlfriend of more than a year, the chief executive of a listed company sued her to recover $468,090 that he had spent on her during their relationship.
On Sept 9, the High Court dismissed Chander Agarwal’s claim that the various sums of money he had spent on his ex-girlfriend, Felicia Lee, were loans that had to be repaid.
In a written judgment, Senior Judge Lee Seiu Kin ruled that most of the sums were gifts that the man had willingly given to the woman.
These include $206,000 in credit card charges, $129,000 spent for overseas trips, $17,000 to engage a feng shui master for her flat, and $30,000 in fees for a Stanford-NUS executive programme.
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Agarwal failed to prove he had given two other sums to her, including $50,000 he claimed he had lent her to clear a debt to her former employer, said the judge.
The judge said Agarwal could not point to any evidence to show that the woman had requested the disputed sums as loans or that she agreed to repay him.
“The evidence before me clearly show that the claimant, smitten by the defendant, had showered her with expensive gifts during their relationship,” said the judge.
“Unfortunately, when their relationship ended on a sour note, the claimant became embittered and was determined to extract a price from her.”
The judge quoted the original lines from the 1697 play The Mourning Bride: “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”
He said: “This case shows that such emotion is not the sole province of one gender.”
Agarwal is the CEO and managing director of TCI Express, an Indian company listed on both the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange.
The defendant is a former flight attendant, who later worked as an insurance agent and medical sales officer.
They met on a flight in 2019. Agarwal later approached Lee on Facebook, and they started meeting up.
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