Man promised marriage to 40 women!

KOCHI: A man who promised at least 40 women of marrying them and later disappeared with their gold ornaments, was arrested here.

The accused, PB Prasanth alias Nandakumar (36), who was arrested here on Tuesday, was said to have swindled as many as 40 women from Kerala by promising that he would marry them and later decamped with their valuables worth about 30 sovereigns of gold ornaments and Rs two lakh in cash, police said.

He was arrested following a complaint from a woman here, who had accompanied him to the temple town of Guruvayur recently for entering into a wedlock. A day before the wedding, he managed to give the bride a slip along with her ornaments.

His modus operandi was first advertising in matrimonial columns of various newspapers with his mobile number.

When prospective brides or her relatives contacted him, he used to project himself as a small businessman from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. He used to claim that he was an orphan and a person with no dowry demands.

Police arrested him after laying a trap. A woman contacted him on his mobile and said she was interested in getting married to him. As soon the much married groom arrived on the scene, police took him into custody. He was later produced before a magistrate and remanded to judicial custody.