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fake marriages

News Reports

Operation Maznoo: Man arrested in Odisha for duping multiple women in the name of marriage, victims took loans to give him money, cars, motorcycles;...

OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2024

Odisha Police arrested a 36-year-old man on the charges of duping multiple women on the pretext of marriage. He married 5 women and was in touch with 49 others

Crime

Uttar Pradesh: 15 persons including two govt officials arrested in mass marriage fraud; visuals of brides garlanding themselves had gone viral

OpIndia Staff - 4 February, 2024

As per reports, it is believed that fake marriages were done to avail funds from the UP government’s mass marriage scheme.

News Reports

Mass marriage of hundreds of women without grooms: FIR against govt officials after major scam unearthed in UP Group Marriage Scheme

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2024

Around 568 girls were married without grooms too loot govt money given under CM Group Marriage Scheme n UP

News Reports

Ghaziabad: Investigation into irregularities in Kanya Vivaah Yojna unearths 156 fake marriages, accused faked marriages to take money

OpIndia Staff - 6 September, 2023

As per the modus operandi, the middlemen asked anyone to sit in the wedding hall and pretend to be a married couple during such an event in Ghaziabad, on November 24, 2022.