A 54-year-old man identified as Bidhu Prakash Swain has been arrested by Indian police for marrying 14 different women across 7 states and scamming them thousands of pounds.

According to police, Swain targeted middle aged women, highly educated, and working in senior positions at various government and private organizations as he eyed their monies.

One of his alleged victims was an advocate at the Supreme Court and a senior Central Armed Police Forces official. He later married the woman and is accused of duping her out of nearly £10,000.

He went further and scammed some organizations in India and also churches.

A Delhi-based teacher filed a complaint in July 2021. After spending a few months with him in Bhubaneswar, she said she realised he was a fraud. Upon arrest, officials say they discovered he had fooled 13 more women he met on social media and matrimonial sites.

The police say they recovered 11 cash cards, four identification cards with different names and a school certificate using a separate identity. He was also frauding unemployed youths with the promise of providing jobs or securing admissions on medicine courses while posing as the deputy director-general of the Central Health Education and Training, it is alleged.