The Waluj MIDC police have arrested three of the four members of an interstate gang that duped people through fake marriages and then absconding with money and jewellery. They defrauded a man from Kuber Gevrai of INR 3 lakh and jewellery. The incident took place between March 26 and April 3, and the accused were arrested on Thursday. However, the bride is still at large. During the investigation it was found that the accused had duped others in a similar way.

According to details, Harishchandra Ashok Kuber (33, Kuber Gevrai) met accused Kundlik Shahu Chavan (Kamlapur) and asked him to find a bride for him. Chavan along with other accused including Kalpana Prakash Muralkar and Manisha Kundlik Chavan showed Kuber a girl at Jogeshwari in Gangapur taluka. They took INR 3 lakh from Kuber for arranging his marriage with the girl named Kusum Ajay Chavan.

This is how the bride ran away

The marriage took place at Kuber Gevrai on April 3, and Kuber presented jewelery to the bride during the ceremony. However, the bride claimed that her cousin had died and she had to attend the funeral on the same day. She did not return to Kuber after that. Whenever he tried to contact the bride on the phone, he did not get satisfactory answers. Later, he discovered that he had been cheated through a fake marriage. Accordingly, he filed a complaint at Waluj MIDC police station against accused Kundlik Chavan, Kalpana Muralkar and Sangeeta Chavan. The police have arrested the three accused, but the bride Kusum Chavan is still at large.

During the investigation, it was found that the accused also duped Nanasaheb Bandal (Wai, Satara), Vinod Wagh (Wai, Satara), Yuvraj Bandal (Wai, Satara), Vipul Patil (Surat, Gujarat) and other youths of Sillod . , Bhatana, Vaijapur, Nevasa, Ahmednagar, Malegaon, Nashik and other places by arranging fake marriages. The police have appealed to the public to contact the Waluj MIDC police if they have been duped by these accused.

The police action was executed by Senior PI Krishna Shinde, API Manoj Shinde, PSI Dinesh Van, Vinod Nitnavare, Jayashree Maske, Jayashri Fuke, Jalindhar Randhe, Manmohanmurli Kolimi, Yashwant Gobade, Vishal Patil, Manoj Bansode and others.