With a well-rehearsed script, she would marry each man, promising eternal devotion, only to abruptly vanish, citing a visit to her parents’ home as a reason for her departure
Srinagar: A single woman in Jammu and Kashmirhas managed to marry and cheat, one after another, as many as 27 men, robbing them off their jewellery, cash, and leaving their hearts broken, a special report by Samaan Lateef in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
The extraordinary case of dupe and deception finally came to an end when the unsuspecting briidegrooms, converged on a local police station, only to discover that they had all fallen victim to the same cunning woman.
“My marriage got delayed by many years and I desperately wanted to marry. A local middleman approached me, saying I have to pay Rs 2 lakh to her,” said Altaf Mir from Budgam.
After paying Rs 2 lakh as meher, a mandatory payment or gift that the Muslim groom is required to give to the bride as part of the marriage contract, the broker arranged his marriage with the woman in April last year.
“After two weeks of our marriage, one morning she went to see her parents in Rajouri and vanished,” he said.
On the pretext of love and marriage, the woman skillfully manipulated the hearts and minds of her unsuspecting victims in Budgam district of Kashmir by expertly weaving a web of deceit that shattered their dreams.
With a well-rehearsed script, she would marry each man, promising eternal devotion, only to abruptly vanish, citing a visit to her parents’ home as a reason for her departure.
The shocking revelation of this fraud unfolded gradually, as the victims began to piece together their similar stories. A shared sense of desperation led them to the doors of a police station in Budgam district of Kashmir, where they confronted the grim reality that their beloved wives were mere illusions, and the woman who had captured their hearts was in fact a master manipulator.
Nisar Ahmed, another Budgam resident, said that the woman went to the hospital with his mother and escaped from there.
Behind the scenes of this elaborate deception is a network of brokers who facilitated the woman’s marriage schemes.
These brokers, played a pivotal role in orchestrating the fraudulent marrriages, ensuring that the grooms were lured into a trap of false promises.
The police have registered a case are trying to track down the woman and her associates.
The lawyer of the victims Abid Zahoor Andrabi suspected a larger inter-district racket involving multiple accomplices, highlighting the woman’s aliases on marriage documents as Zaheen, Ilayas, and Shaheena, with her true identity remaining unknown.
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