The sensational fake divorce case in which an NRI software engineer divorced his wife by producing a proxy without attending courts still hangs in balance with police making no headway even two months after the incident.
While advocate Balasubramaniam, who allegedly took Rs 6 lakh for orchestrating the fake divorce, is out on bail, others who were involved in the fraud are still on the run.
Based on the confession of Mr Balasubramaniam, police booked cases against two advocates who appeared under fake names in the court to obtain a divorce on behalf of Mr V.B. Shivakumar.
“Enquiries revealed that two advocates Mahesh and Ramesh had appeared as Raghupathi and Anandaraj. However, we are yet to locate them,” a police source said.
The entire fraud came to light after Mr Shivakumar’s wife Ms Swarnalatha found out on a social networking site that he had remarried.
“While Shivakumar made the shady dealings with Balasubramaniam and left for Australia, it was his parents V.K. Balaraman and B. Leelavathi, who coordinated in obtaining the divorce. They were arrested,” police said.
Meanwhile, another woman, Ms Rajeswari, who impersonated Ms Swarnalatha as Mr Shivakumar’s spouse, is also absconding after her bail was rejected.
Polygamist under police radar
Police is looking for a 31-year-old man for attempting to marry a woman after concealing his first marriage at Mudis in Valparai.
Police said B. Gandhi, 31, a daily wage labourer, had planned to marry the daughter of Subbulakshmi, 46, a resident of Kaja Mudis in Valparai.
“Subbulakshmi agreed to get her daughter married to Gandhi as she believed that the culprit was not married. She had also fixed the daughter’s marriage with Gandhi in a few weeks,” police said.
However, a few days back Subbulakshmi learnt through her relative that Gandhi was already married to another woman. Following this, she cancelled the marriage with Gandhi.
However, the accused insisted that she gets her daughter married to him. She refused to do it, police said.
Gandhi then visited Subbulakshmi and threatened of dire consequences if she didn’t allow him to marry her daughter. Mudis police registered a case of harassment and cheating against Gandhi and is looking for him.