More the marrier, This man from Odisha has 14 wives!

Bhubaneswar: You may find it difficult to live a double life but an Odisha man has been living 14 different lives with 14 wives over the last couple of years.

The incident has come to light on Valentine’s Day as a man of Odisha has been reportedly alleged to have 14 wives in different parts of the country.

The 54-year-old Romeo of Odisha’s Kendrapara has been identified as Ramesh Chandra Swain. He is a homeopathy doctor by profession.

Reportedly, he has married 14 women from various cities including Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Delhi. He had created several profiles with a high qualification background on various online wedding websites. Using these fake profiles, he used to trap women from across the country and tie knots with them.

In 2021, one of his 14 wives filed a complaint against Ramesh at Mahila Police Station. She is a school teacher in Delhi. She had alleged that they got married at Arya Samaj Mandal in Delhi following which she was brought to Bhubaneswar. Later, she got to know that he has produced a fake identity and had looted many women using the same trick.

On getting the complaint, Mahila Police Station and Special Squad arrested Ramesh from a rented house in Bhubaneswar’s Khandagiri area. It has been learnt that Andhra Pradesh police had arrested him.

Ramesh had completed his +2 Science from Kendrapara College following which he studied Para Medical and Laboratory Technology and Pharmacy Department of Cochin Institute.

He had married two women between 1979-2002 and other 12 women in between 2002-2020.

Meanwhile, in a press meet, Bhubaneswar DCP Umashankar Dash has informed that Ramesh has been living in Assam’s Guwahati for a maximum of time. ” We have already contacted with nine of his wives among the 14 women,” he said.

Further investigation into his financial condition is underway to ascertain how much money he has looted by identifying himself as a homeopathy doctor. Ramesh has been mainly targeting single working women who had nobody to rely upon. A Special Team will be formed with lady police cops for a better probe and Ramesh will be taken into remand, added DCP.