The person has duped girls in seven states, together with Delhi and Punjab. (Representational)
Bhubaneswar:
A sexagenarian who allegedly married 14 girls in seven states in a span of 48 years was arrested in Bhubaneswar on Monday, police stated.
It’s also alleged that the person who hails from a village below Patkura police station in Odisha’s Kendrapara district took cash from these girls earlier than fleeing. The arrested man, nonetheless, denied the fees.
The accused had married for the primary time in 1982 and took a second spouse in 2002. He fathered 5 youngsters from these two marriages, Bhubaneswar Deputy Commissioner of Police Umashankar Sprint stated. Between 2002 and 2020, he befriended different girls by matrimonial web sites and married them with out data of the opposite wives, Mr Sprint stated.
The person was staying within the Odisha capital together with his final spouse, who was a college instructor in Delhi. She, someway, got here to know of his earlier marriages and lodged a grievance with the police.
He was arrested from his rented lodging. On the modus operandi of the accused, the DCP stated he used to focus on middle-aged single girls, largely divorcees who sought companionship on matrimonal web sites. Later he acquires their cash earlier than abandoning them.
He used to establish himself as a physician and married legal professionals, physicians and highly-educated girls. A lady working in a para-military pressure was additionally amongst her victims, Mr Sprint stated.
He has duped girls in seven states together with Delhi, Punjab, Assam, Jharkhand and Odisha. His first two wives had been from Odisha.
The DCP stated the matter got here to the fore when the college instructor had lodged a grievance with the Mahila police in July final 12 months claiming that the accused married her in New Delhi in 2018 and took her to Bhubaneswar.
She got here to find out about his a number of marriages and the police arrested him on the premise of her grievance.
Police seized 11 ATM playing cards, 4 Aadhaar playing cards and different paperwork from his possession.
He was earlier arrested twice for dishonest unemployed youths and mortgage fraud in Hyderabad and Ernakulam, police stated.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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