Summary:
more-inThe Kochi City police on Tuesday arrested a 38-year-old man who had allegedly cheated several widows after offering to marry them. According to the police, his modus operandi was to marry young widows by advertising himself as a prospective groom in matrimonial classifieds. He landed in the custody of the Ernakulam North police in connection with a case of cheating a woman from Malappuram. Interestingly, he had published a matrimonial advertisement in vernacular newspapers a day before being arrested and was receiving several inquiries over the phone even while in custody. According to the police, several cases of marriage fraud have been pending against him since 2008..