66 year old man married 28 women by becoming a fake doctor, duped banks of crores, police were also stunned by the exploit
This thug targeted his victims through matrimonial sites like Jeevan Saathi.com, Shaadi.com and BharatMatrimony.com and kept ashing on their cash.Bibhu Prakash Swain believed in soulmates and true love, or so he told dozens of women he allegedly married and conned across India before his arrest more than a week ago in Bhubaneswar, the capital of eastern Odisha state.
Investigators believe Swain married more than 18 times and are now going through his mobile phone records where he saved his wives’ contacts – as Madam Delhi, Madam Assam or Madam UP (Uttar Pradesh) – named after the places in India where they stayed.
Police have caught a 66-year-old man who married and robbed 28 women in ten Indian states by posing as a fake doctor. Many educated and intelligent women came under the guise of this person who called himself a doctor and got duped of lakhs of rupees. This thug made life partner.com (jeevansathi.com)marriage dot com (shadi.com) And targeted his victims through matrimonial sites like BharatMatrimony.com and kept ashing on their cash. On February 13, when he was traveling, he was caught by the police. The police was following this man for eight months and was tracking his online transactions.
Hindustan Times According to reports, this person named Bibhu Prakash Swain is barely 5 feet 2 inches tall, who had a torn and bushy mustache. When the police interrogated him, it came to know that he is one of the biggest fraudsters of Odisha. He married at least 27 women in 10 states. In Kerala, 13 banks were defrauded of 1 crore through 128 fake credit cards. Apart from this, in 2006, in Hyderabad, cheated people of 2 crores and promised to get seats in MBBS courses for children.
Bibhu Prakash was arrested and immediately remanded to judicial custody in Bhubaneswar on the basis of a police complaint lodged by one of his wives under sections 498 (A), 419, 468, 471 and 494 of the Indian Penal Code in May 2021. . Assistant Commissioner of Police Sanjeev Satpathy said, ‘What we had imagined about him, it did not look like it at all. We also do not know whether he has passed the matriculation examination or not. But we knew that he had hunted women looking for protection and love.
Bhubaneshwar Deputy Commissioner of Police Umashankar Das said, “However, we are yet to find out how much money he earned from the victims. Initial estimates say that he collected between 2 and 10 lakhs from the victims. Her main motive was to marry for money.
Angry and cheated
Police launched a probe into Swain’s multiple lives in May 2021 after a complaint by one 48-year-old wife who, by chance, discovered that he was already married to at least seven other women.
The victim, feeling angry and cheated, police say, “quietly retrieved” the contact details of his other wives from his phone and contacted them individually about their shared predicament.
“This is when we came in and made discoveries about his long history of cheating, impersonation and deceit,” Satpathy said.
Swain, born in a small village in Odisha, first married in 1978 and has three children – two of them doctors and one a dentist – with his first wife.
Trained as a lab technician, he fell out with his family and moved to Bhubaneswar where he started introducing himself as a doctor and ultimately married a doctor, his second wife, in 2002.
“He has since used multiple names but always introduced himself as a doctor or a professor while looking for wives online,” Satpathy said.
The police doubt his ruses were a one-man job and are looking for people who helped him with his elaborate setups and moved his money from one place to another.