A 37-year-old woman from Powai has accused a man she met on a matrimonial site of hiding an earlier marriage, beating her and cheating her family out of Rs 24 lakh. Police in Vikhroli have booked the 33-year-old man and three of his relatives.
The woman, a homemaker, had divorced her first husband and wanted to marry again. In 2023 she set up a profile on the site and said plainly that she was divorced. The man, she told police, introduced himself as an unmarried businessman.
They married in a Buddhist ceremony in Bandra that same year. Her parents gave her about 95.44 grams of gold jewellery at the wedding.
Within a week of her moving into the family home in Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, she alleges, her husband, father-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law began taunting her for not bringing dowry. She also alleges that her husband frequently assaulted her.
The Parksite police have booked all four for allegedly concealing the man’s existing marriage, cheating, dowry-related harassment and cheating her family of Rs 24 lakh.
Another woman has since come forward. She says she is the man’s first wife and that they have a child.
