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Acting connected the tip-off, helium pretended to beryllium “a antheral desperately looking for a beingness partner”. When the accused agreed to conscionable him connected Friday, the duo was arrested from Jahangirpuri.
For years, a husband-wife duo allegedly lured unsuspecting bachelors successful Delhi into the committedness of matrimony — lone to rob them of their wealth and vanish. Even arsenic the constabulary were blistery connected their trail, they absconded and evaded apprehension for 5 years. The pursuit yet ended erstwhile a Crime Branch officer, posing arsenic a hopeless groom, acceptable a trap and arrested them successful Jahangirpuri connected Friday, said officers.
Police said the mates has 2 children and was starring a low-profile life, with the antheral moving arsenic an e-rickshaw operator successful Jahangirpuri to evade arrest.
The duo was wanted successful a 2019 lawsuit registered nether IPC sections 328, 376, 506, and 34, wherever the complainant alleged that the mates had lured her into joining the fake matrimony racket. In her complaint, she claimed she was taken to the location of a antheral she identified arsenic Rahul (also known arsenic Din Mohammad Mandal) wherever she was drugged and forcefully joined to a antheral from Haryana.
According to the police, immoderate members of the pack were arrested during the archetypal investigation. However, the cardinal accused managed to flight and remained astatine ample until their apprehension connected Friday.
“Our squad came to cognize that a pack has been progressive successful Delhi for a agelong clip wherever members people radical who are looking to marry. They unreal to beryllium the household members of a miss oregon would enactment similar an arranged matrimony mediator,” said Additional CP (Crime Branch) Sanjay Sain.
After convincing their targets, they would extort astir Rs 70,000 from them nether the pretext of matrimony arrangements. The constabulary fishy that respective victims whitethorn person fallen prey to the alleged fraud implicit the years.
While tracking down victims of the pack and leads that could usher them, Head Constable Surender received a tip-off from a idiosyncratic who was looking to wed a miss and had been approached by a mates who were claiming to put his marriage.
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Acting connected the tip-off, helium pretended to beryllium “a antheral desperately looking for a beingness partner”. When the accused agreed to conscionable him connected Friday, the duo was arrested from Jahangirpuri.
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