Dubai-based groom falls victim to wedding fraud
In an unusual turn of events, a Dubai-based groom, Deepak Kumar, and his entourage of 150 ‘baraatis’ were left shocked after arriving in Moga for the wedding only to discover that the bride and her family were nowhere to be found.
According to sources, the wedding was entirely arranged through social media. Kumar revealed that he had been in contact with the bride on Instagram for the past three years, but they had never met in person.
Kumar said that his father even talked to the ‘father’ of the bride over the phone. He and his family were asked to reach at Lohara Chowk in Moga on Friday afternoon. They were informed that a marriage palace had been booked near Geeta Bhawan in Moga. However when they arrived at the venue, they could neither find any marriage palace nor the bride.
The bride had also allegedly taken Rs 70,000 from Kumar under the pretext of wedding expenses. Harjinder Singh, a police official, said they had already started investigating the matter and the search for the missing bride is on.
