Bhubaneswar: Nayapalli Police in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday arrested a woman and her mother from Odisha’s Nayagarh district for allegedly duping a person from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on the pretext of marriage.
According to sources, a marriage broker played matchmaker and introduced the families, who then decided to go ahead with the proposal after meeting at a hotel in the state capital. The wedding date was finalised and an engagement ceremony was held where rings were exchanged. As per Telugu tradition, the man’s family also gifted jewellery and clothes to the woman.
On March 23, the woman and her family, however, did not turn up for the scheduled court marriage. The groom’s family then contacted them through the broker and were told that they were no longer interested in the marriage. They also refused to return the gifts, which included gold jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh, silver jewellery worth Rs 20,000 and Rs 1 lakh in cash.
Following which, the Andhra man lodged a complaint with Nayapalli police, which said that the mother-daughter duo was earlier booked in a fraud case.
