India: Police hunt for 'bachelor' who married three women
Jharkhand man in hiding after wives discover they were cheated
Patna: Police in Jharkhand are on the lookout for a man who married three women saying he was a bachelor.
The man is in hiding and various women’s organisations have stepped up protests demanding his immediate arrest and justice to the women.
Reports said Sikandar Vishwakarma, a resident of Giridih district in Jharkhand, initially married Basanti Devi in his home district. He had three children from his first wife but as the financial crisis gripped his family, he left for Delhi looking for a job. His first wife stayed back in the village, looking after her in-laws.
According to reports, while working with a private company in the national capital, the youth became friendly with a local girl named Rajani Kumari and married her. After some time, he visited Uttar Pradesh in the course of work and married another girl Anjali Dhaka, but continued to stay in Delhi.
Over the years, the man spent time with the women at two rented rooms that he had hired. If he stayed with one wife during the day, he would spend the night with another wife, citing change in office timings.
The story came to light after he accidently left his cell phone with his second wife Rajani, who found another woman inquiring about him over the phone. She got suspicious and rushed to the youth’s native village in Giridih to find out the truth.
Rajani was stunned to find his first wife staying at the man’s village and taking care of her in-laws. She has filed a complaint with the Delhi police, seeking action against the man who cheated her.
“He often told me about shift change in office but I never suspected this. If he stayed during the day with me, he was away during the whole night and if he spent time in the day, he was missing during the night. That has been going on for the past eight years,” Rajani added. The man married Rajani in July 2014, and Anjali in 2020.
Various women’s organisations have now come out in support of the victims, demanding justice for them. “This is a complete case of fraud and cheating with innocent women. The accused must be brought to book,” a women’s organisation official Kavita Murmu told the local media on Thursday.