Drama as man is busted for marrying 14 women in 7 different states. A 54-year-old man has been tagged ‘the Indian Tinder Swindler’ after marrying 14 women across India and scamming them out of thousands of pounds.
The man identified as Bidhu Prakash Swain who is often aliased as Ramesh Swain has been arrested by the Police after primarily targeting middle-aged women and divorcees. Bidhu is also alleged to have fraudulently posed as a doctor at the Union Health Ministry.
“His targets were highly-educated and worked in senior positions at various government and private organisations.He had his eyes on their money” The police disclosed.
One of his alleged victims was an advocate at the Supreme Court and a senior Central Armed Police Forces official. He later married the woman and is accused of duping her out of nearly £10,000.
Swain’s victims weren’t always people either, it is said. He took it one step further and scammed organisations and sacred places of worship. He managed to scam the Gurdwara, where one of his marriages was solemnised, out of almost £11,000 with the promise of building a hospital, his accusers claim.
According to the news outlet, Swain is a father of five children and had married for the first time in 1982 and then again in 2022. Between 2002 and 2020, he had befriended many women and married them too.
A Delhi-based teacher filed a complaint in July 2021. After spending a few months with him in Bhubaneswar, she said she realised he was a fraud. Upon arrest, officials say they discovered he had fooled 13 more women he met on social media and matrimonial sites.
The police say they recovered 11 cash cards, four identification cards with different names and a school certificate using a separate identity. He was also frauding unemployed youths with the promise of providing jobs or securing admissions on medicine courses while posing as the deputy director-general of the Central Health Education and Training, it is alleged.
The police will seek Swain’s remand. “If needed, an all-women team will be formed for further probe. A professional counsellor will also be included in the team for counselling his victims,” the DCP said.
“We are planning to conduct a detailed financial investigation in the fraud. We will seek longer remand of the accused for a detailed probe,” said DCP Umashankar Dash.
Source – Zimgazette
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