Indian police have arrested a man on charges of duping multiple women and getting married to them with fake identities and stealing thousands of dollars from them. Not only this, but the man also did fraud with organizations, religious places and cheated unemployed youth with the fake promise of securing jobs for them.
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Beating the Tinder Swindler's record of duping women, this Indian man has taken fraud to next level after marrying 14 women across the country and scamming them out of thousands of dollars, police say.
Bidhu Prakash Swain, who it is claimed often went by his alias Ramesh Swain, has been arrested by the police for targetting middle-aged women and divorcees. Not only this but he is alleged to have fraudulently posed as a doctor at the Union Health Ministry.
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"His targets were highly-educated and worked in senior positions at various government and private organisations. He had his eyes on their money," Bhubaneswar DCP Umashankar Dash told India Today.
Reportedly one of the victims of Swain 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 $13,000 (Rs 10 lakh).
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Swain not only cheated people in fact he took his fraud one step ahead and scammed scared religious places and organizations.
He managed to scam the Gurdwara, where one of his marriages was solemnized, out of almost $14,000 (Rs 11 lakh) with the promise of building a hospital, his accusers claim.
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Officials records suggest that Swain got married the first time in 1982 and has five children. Then between 2002 and 2022, he has befriended many women and married them.
The man faces charges of getting married to the women, staying with them for a few days, and then leaving them at their parents' places before travelling for work and ultimately disappearing.
A Delhi-based teacher filed a complaint in July 2021. After spending a few months with him in Bhubaneswar, she says that she found something fishy and susepcted that he was a fraud.
Upon arrest, officials say they were shcoked to discovered he had fooled 13 more women he met on social media and matrimonial sites.
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While investigating, police have found 11 cash cards, four identification cards with different names and a school certificate using a separate identity.
To add to the list, the man was duping unemployed youth with fake 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.
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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.
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