Ajeet Maurya, a social media influencer, who makes reels on social media sites, has two wives, nine children, and six girlfriends. He was dining with his wife at a hotel in Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar and planning for an overseas trip for the New Year celebrations when Uttar Pradesh police arrested him on Wednesday. He told cops he took to crime to ‘feed his family’.
A Class VI dropout, Maurya, 41, was arrested for running fake ponzi-like schemes, circulating fake Indian currency notes, duping people with insurance schemes, and several other cases.
According to police, he has nine criminal cases against him. Maurya’s crimes came to the fore after a person called Dharmendra Kumar filed and FIR, in which he alleged that a group of people duped him of Rs 3 lakhs in the name of doubling the amount.
Before turning to crime, Maurya used to make false Plaster of Paris ceilings in Mumbai. His criminal journey started after he stopped getting work. “In Mumbai he had married Sangeeta, 40, in 2000 and had seven children with her. He lost his job by 2010 and returned to his village in Gonda, but found no lucrative job,” police said
The first case of theft and trespassing was registered against Maurya in Gonda in 2016. Since then, he has not looked back.
“Two years later he came in touch with Sushila, 30, and took to new means of fraud. He started circulation of fake currency notes and floating ponzi-like schemes,” a senior crime branch personnel was quoted as saying by news reports.
The two soon connived with some others and floated an outfit. After that, they started living a life of luxury.
In 2019, Maurya married Sushila, who gave birth to his two other children.
During the probe, cops found that Maurya had built two houses, one in which Sangeeta lives and another for Sushila and her children. He provides his wives with a lavish life and the ‘booty’ is equally distributed between them.
