Srinagar, 1 September: Police on Friday asserted that the arrest of four suspects in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir broke up a cross-district “fake marriage” ring. Several reputable residents of the Kunzer region submitted an application that alerted the authorities to the case. According to the accusation, the accused were acting as intermediaries during wedding festivities, according to the police. They allegedly sent images of other young women via WhatsApp with the bogus claim that they were prepared for marriage. These people were successful in persuading the opposing side’s victims to accept marriage proposals, fix the “mehar money,” and make payments.Nevertheless, no weddings were consummated and the money was not reimbursed despite the financial transactions. It has been discovered that these gang of con artists selected their targets by meticulously selecting images of young women. Under the guise of mehar payments and commission, they were able to amass a sizeable sum of 7,38,000 rupees from unwitting victims, according to the police.Laal Hussain, a resident of Ward No. 06, Jaranwala Gali, Rajouri; Irshada Begum, a resident of Mori Kalakot, Rajouri; Abdul Rahman Rather, a resident of Dar Mohalla, Drang, Budgam; and Abdul Khaliq Dar, a resident of Gulab Bag, Pati Poshker, Khag Budgam, are the four suspects who have been taken into custody.
A police case FIR was filed under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and an investigation was launched right away, resulting in the discovery of the entire fraudulent scheme.
