Kolkata man tries to pull off matrimony fraud, held

KOLKATA: It was slated to be a dream union — the couple had met through Facebook; the groom from Nadia had just bought an apartment at Chinar Park near Baguiati; an “IT engineer with a top firm”, the would-be groom even owned a car. The bride’s family found little to object and the wedding was fixed for March 10. The shock came when the bride learnt that the groom was actually unemployed and trying to pull off a con job.


The bride, from the Jheel Road in Garfa, went on a shopping spree — buying furniture and jewellery. However, a couple of weeks ago, when she called her “fiance”

Subhodip Bhowal

to move some of the items to his home, he kept putting it off on some pretext. When he finally relented, she found herself with the guy and a broker at an under-construction building. This raised the suspicion that he had not bought the apartment like he had initially claimed. Upon digging into the matter a little, she came to know that Bhowal was not employed at all.

The woman finally took Bhowal to an IT firm office in New Town, where he had claimed he worked, the man broke down and confessed it was a con job. The Jadavpur police then arrested Bhowal and detained his family for questioning.

“The four accused — Subhodip and his relatives

Nirmal Kumar Bhowal

,

Jharna Bhowal

, and Gour Saha trying to pull off a con job and was — entered into a criminal conspiracy and induced the complainant’s sister-in-law for marriage by feeding false information about the Subhodip’s job and property. The woman’s family had distributed the wedding cards, booked a venue, bought ornaments and booked a caterer,” an investigating officer said.

“We found that the accused does not have a history of fraud. Subhodip said he believed that he would manage to pull off the con job. We are questioning his family to understand their roles. We have sent a team to his Nadia home to dig out more information,” he added.


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