Serial marriage fraud gets caught, finally

Police arrested a fraud youth as he came to marry a college girl as his seventh wife at Satnai colony village in Dimla upazila of the district on Saturday night.

Sirajul Islam Siraj, 35, son of late Taher Ali of Mohesha Mirbag village in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur, developed relation with a Class XII girl student of local Janata Degree College three months ago, police and locals said.

Siraj had falsely introduced himself as an officer of narcotics control department and concealed his earlier six marriages.

Siraj proposed to the girl to flee from home to get married with him but the girl persuaded him to marry her at her residence with consent of her parents.

It was settled by both that their marriage would be solemnised simply at the girl's residence on Saturday evening.

Siraj came to bride's house mysteriously at around 2:00am with a hired car along with an associate and said the delay was caused due to a disturbance of the car on the way.

As the local marriage registrar asked the groom to show his national ID card the latter placed a photocopy shown as attested by a lawmaker from Dhaka, said Abdul Latif Khan, chairman of Satnai union parishad (UP).

At this locals grew suspicious as Siraj hails from Rangpur. By verification through internet, they found the ID number to be false.

Then they detained Siraj, his associate Delwar Hosssen, 36, and car driver Sumon Ali, 25, and tied them to a tree.

Informed by the UP chairman, police reached the spot that night and took the three to Dimla Police Station (PS).

"During our interrogation, Siraj admitted to have married six times before coming to Satnai village for his seventh marriage," Moazzem Hossen, officer in charge of Dimla PS, said yesterday.

It was also revealed that the youth is a peon in Jubo Unnoyon Office in Iswardi upazila of Pabna district, not an officer of narcotics department.