The case of ‘Looteri Dulhan’ has come to the fore in Nagpur. A woman named Meghani, along with her boyfriend, used to target people. After falling in love trap, she would marry him after blackmailing him and then get divorced after recovering lakhs of rupees. Meghali used to do this work along with her boyfriend Mayur Raju. Finally, when Mahendra Rameshlal Vanwani, a resident of Hudco Colony, complained, Meghalaya’s misdeeds came to light.
Police probing the case said that Meghali hails from Wardha district but has now shifted to Nagpur. She got married for the first time in the year 2003. After this, married in 2013, 2016 and 2021. After getting married, she used to file false cases against her husband and then extort money. After Vanwani filed the case, her reality came to the fore and it came to know that she had already done three marriages.
According to the police, Vanwani had a vegetable shop in the Cotton Market of Nagpur. She came in contact with Vanwani on the pretext of buying vegetables at the shop. After that both of them started dating. In September last year, she came to Vanwani’s house and forced her to marry him. When he refused to marry, Meghali threatened to file a rape case. After this Vanwani married him. She also used to fight with her mother-in-law, so Meghali and Vanwani started living in a rented house.
Within a month of marriage, Meghali complained of rape against her husband. He got bail after spending 27 days in jail. Meanwhile, he demanded Rs 4 lakh from Vanwani. In April this year, he again filed a case against Vanwani. This time Vanwani was released from jail after two weeks. Later Vanwani comes to know that Meghali has married three people even before that. Police said that she had also complained against her earlier husbands and in-laws.
The police registered a case against Meghali and her boyfriend under sections 386, 420, 494, 496 and 497 of the IPC. Police said the court has given them two days’ police custody.