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Bengaluru: Man who married widows through remarriage sites held

Ganesh, the accused had approached widows through social network remarriage sites and married them by making false promises to them.

BENGALURU: The RMC Yard police have arrested a person for cheating widows. The arrested person has been identified as N R Ganesh alias Vikram alias Karthik alias Harish Kumar (45), a resident of Lalitadripura in Mysuru.

According to police, the accused Ganesh had married four widows one after the other and made sure that he did not give any clue that he had been married to other women as well.

Ganesh, the accused had approached widows through social network remarriage sites and married them by making false promises to them. He has also confessed that he had cheated people by promising them bank loans. He would also cheat aged persons and helpless women.

The accused had studied till 10th class. He had married Savitha, a garment factory worker from Rajajinagar about 15 years ago. Ganesh had then married Gayathri alias Suchitra some seven years back in Kodagu. He had kept her in a rented house in Mysuru.

After this, he uploaded his profile in Brahmi Matrimonial and got in touch with Lalitha, a software engineer and a widow. He married her in 2015, without the knowledge of the other two women. However, he has divorced Lalitha now. Again in 2019, he got in touch with another woman Asha and got married to her.

Meanwhile, the mother of his third wife Mahalakshmi got suspicious about his activities and got wind of his cheating ways. Then, she approached the RMC Yard police and lodged a complaint against him.

When the police arrested Ganesh, he had confessed that he had used different networking sites to find widows and helpless women. He introduced himself with different names to the victims.

RMC Yard police inspector Mahendra Kumar K H has appealed to the public and women who have been cheated by him to approach the police station. Presently, the accused has been remanded to judicial custody.

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