Fraud: ‘Blank stamp papers used by fraud to marry women’ | Bhubaneswar News
Bhubaneswar: Police on Wednesday recovered blank stamp papers from the home of serial fraudster Satyajit Managovind Samal, which he allegedly used to solemnise marriages through quick agreements and affidavits.
Police also claimed to have found several fake identity cards, passports, debit cards and a laptop. The identity cards bore the logos of CBI and Intelligence Bureau.He had affixed his photograph in civvies as well as in uniform to lend credence to his claim of govt employment to the women he was dating through different matrimonial sites.
Police unravelled the details during the searches and after interrogating him in custody. His two-day police remand ended on Wednesday. “If required, we will appeal for his remand again. He has visited Saudi Arabia several times. He was working there and knew Arabic. He had stamp papers to enter marital agreements,” said city DCP Prateek Singh.
Samal (36), a native of Jajpur district, had been staying in Chandasekharpur area here. But after duping multiple women, he had fled to Dubai. Two of the victims are from Odisha. Samal had taken around Rs 45 lakh from them and bought vehicles which he had deployed in travel agencies and was getting rent, police said.
Cops had laid a trap by making a woman inspector pose as a prospective victim to lure him from Dubai to Bhubaneswar. Samal was in contact with 49 other women through chats whose phone numbers and addresses he obtained from matrimonial sites.
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