A 35-year-old man who posed as a Major from the Intelligence Wing of the Army has been arrested by the West district police for duping gullible women on the pretext of marriage through matrimonial sites.
“The accused has been identified as Kislay Thakur. He used to change his name and religion in order to cheat people. His father is a Retired Colonel. As he hailed from an Army family, he used his knowledge of the force to impress and convince people that he was an Army man,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Ranvir Singh. A resident of Amritsar, Punjab, Thakur was arrested from Gurgaon by the staff of Janakpuri police station on Saturday.
A complaint was filed by Syed Rizwan Ahmed on June 10 in which he alleged that in search of a suitable groom for his sister, he came in contact with a man, who identified himself as Major Ashiq Bashir, a resident of Bangalore and posted in leh-ladakh region of Military Intelligence Unit of Indian Army through a matrimonial website. Bashir duped him of Rs 5,95,000 on pretext of booking a Renault Duster car for the marriage. Ahmed fell into his trap after which Bashir asked him to deposit Rs 3,45,000 in the account of Kislay Thakur.