A woman, described by the police as “looting bride”, has been arrested over a decade after she married a series of men and collected a total of 1.25 crore rupees from them in the name of settlement, reports NDTV.
Seema, aka Nikki, a resident of Uttarakhand of India, first married a businessman from Agra in 2013. Sometime later, she filed a case against the man's family and received 75 lakh rupees as part of a compromise.
In 2017, Seema married a software engineer from Gurugram and later took 10 lakh rupees from the man as settlement after parting ways with him.
She then went on to marry a Jaipur-based businessman in 2023, but soon fled his home with jewellery and cash worth 36 lakh rupees. After the family filed a case, Jaipur Police arrested Seema.
Police investigation revealed that Seema looked for her victims on matrimonial sites, usually settling for men who were either divorced or had lost their wives. By marrying in different states, she collected a total of 1.25 crore rupees as settlement in various cases.
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