Odisha man, who was arrested for 14 marriages, has three more wives

The number of wives in the list of a 66yearold man of Odisha who married middleaged educated and welltodo women of various states increased to 17 with three more cases coming to the fore a police officer said on WednesdayIt was earlier alleged that the man who is currently in judicial custody had married 14 timesThe police officer said the accused who approached women under the fake identity of a doctor had also tied the knot with a charted account from Chhattisgarh a physician from Assam and a highly educated lady of OdishaThree more wives of the fake doctor have been identified Bhubaneswar Deputy Commissioner of Police US Dash told reporters in BhubaneswarA student from Odishas Jagatsinghpur district also alleged that the fake doctor had duped him of Rs 18 lakh after assuring him a seat in a medical college in the stateldquoHis mobile phones will be sent to the forensic lab and his financial transactions will be probedrdquo Mr Dash saidThe help of Reserve Bank of India RBI has also been sought since the accused was found in possession of three PAN cards and 11 ATM cardsAccording to police he duped his wives four of whom live in Odisha three in Delhi three in Assam two each in Madhya Pradesh and Punjab and one each in Chhattisgarh Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh of lakhs of rupees before moving on to greener pasturesThe sexagenarian Ramesh Chandra Swain who acquired different names like Dr Bibhu Prakash Swain and Dr Ramani Ranjan Swain is from a coastal village in Odishas Kendrapara districtSwain was an expert in persuading women and lured college teachers even hardboiled policewomen and captious lawyers as he went about striking middleaged women desperate for companionship with cupids arrowHowever his luck run out on Valentine Day on Monday after 38 years when he was arrested by the police based on the allegation of his latest wife from Delhi whom he married in 2020Swain got married for the first time in 1982 and the last in 2020 His last marriage to a teacher was solemnised at an Arya Samaj temple in DelhiHe however rejected the accusations I have not married all these women and I am indeed a doctor Swain asserted while being escorted to the courtSwain befriended women on matrimonial websites and deftly concealed his matrimonial statusHe allegedly duped his wife from Punjab of Rs 10 lakh and the Gurudwara where his marriage was solemnized of Rs 11 lakh with the promise of facilitating setting up a medical college He was earlier arrested twice for cheating unemployed youth and loan fraud in Hyderabad in 2010 and Ernakulam in 2006 police saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever