One arrested for cheating in name of marriage alliances

Hyderabad: A man, who defrauded marriage aspirants with the promise of getting the best proposals online, was arrested by the Marketing Intelligence Team of Cyber Crime Station (CCS) of the city police. According to the police, the accused M SullamVardan Yadav alias Vardan, 27, and resident of Shaikpet, cheated marriage aspirants and their parents by creating a Marriage Bureau website www.swapnamarriagebureau.com. By promising to get the best matches, he also collected money by communicating via cell-phone and cheated people.

During the investigation, it was found that the accused indulged in the practice when he suffered losses after founding Swapna Marriage Bureau in Mehdipatnam. Later, he started the website and created fake profiles of proposals. For publicity, he also published advertisements in Telugu newspapers. He used to collect data from the Yadav Sangam and appointed two tele-callers at his Mehdipatnam office. “In this way, the accused person had cheated many customers in Telangana and AP,”Avinash Mohanty, DCP, Detective Department CCS, said.