Man marries 14 ladies in 7 states, held in Odisha

It can be alleged that the person who hails from a village beneath Patkura police station in Odisha’s Kendrapara district took cash from these ladies 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 Dash stated.

Between 2002 and 2020, he befriended different ladies via matrimonial web sites and married them with out information of the opposite wives, Dash stated.

The man was staying within the Odisha capital together with his final spouse, who was a faculty 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 ladies, principally divorcees who sought companionship on matrimonal web sites. Later he acquires their cash earlier than abandoning them.

He used to determine himself as a physician and married attorneys, physicians and highly-educated ladies. A lady working in a para-military drive was additionally amongst her victims, Dash stated.

He has duped ladies in seven states together with Delhi, Punjab, Assam, Jharkhand and Odisha. His first two wives have been from Odisha.

The DCP stated the matter got here to the fore when the varsity 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 idea of her grievance.

Police seized 11 ATM playing cards, 4 Aaadhaar 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.