A PhD student in Delhi has alleged her husband had impersonated an ISRO scientist to marry her and she found about his lies after tracing his location to Gurugram through their shared Netflix account, police said on Sunday.
She also found that the man was already married to another woman, they said. The man and his family have been absconding after his lies were busted. In her police complaint on October 1, the woman alleged Jitender posed as an ISRO scientist before her family and married her.
He claimed he had an MTech degree from IIT-Kharagpur and showed them bogus documents to prove he had worked in DRDO as a scientist, before joining ISRO, a police official said.
The woman’s family had visited Jitender and his family in Rewari before the marriage, he said. After the wedding in May, Jitender claimed he was going to join American space agency NASA to train as an astronaut. The woman’s father dropped him at the airport, and after “returning” from the US, he told the woman he was going to Bangalore for work. But his wife found that he was using Netflix from a location in Gurugram, the officer said.
When confronted, Jitender disclosed he was unemployed and was already married. He did not visit the US or Bangalore and was in Gurugram the whole time.