Patna,(BiharTimesu): A man in 30s, apparently caught cheating youths in the name of providing lucrative jobs, was in fact found to be a much-married fraud, who had duped at least 15 women between the age group of 18 and 27.

However, police said that he might have married between 62 and 65 women as complaints are pouring in from neighbouring West Bengal.

Mohammad Nizam, alias Sujan alias Raj Kumar from Mehsi in East Champaran district, reportedly married for the first time in 2004 and has fathered many children.

He was arrested from Chiknauta Chowk under the jurisdiction of Baligaon police station in Vaishali district on June 1 for allegedly duping unemployed youths on the pretext of providing them lucrative jobs in central government and public sector undertakings.

But the local police was taken aback when at least 15 young women––cutting across the caste and community lines––turned up at the police station and claimed themselves to be Nizam’s wives. Some of them had carried their children with them.

Not only that a middle-aged couple from Alauli in Khagaria arrived at the police station to inquire about the matter on Monday.

They were shocked to learn that his son-in-law was a fraud and has been detained on the charge of duping several women earlier. The marriage of their daughter was solemnised quite lavishly on March 21 last.

According to the police the couple from Khagaria fainted in the police station after seeing several other young women in the police station. 

Nizam claimed to be a vigilance officer in the railways. He always used to keep a walkie-talkie to befool the people.

The SHO of Baligaon police station Raj Kumar Paswan, said that the police have come to know about Nizam’s marriages after the arrest.

The first marriage was solemnised in 2004 with Pinki of Muzaffarpur. He later married girls from Sitamarhi, West Champaran, Saharsa, Madhepura, Samastipur, Bhagalpur, Purnea, Araria and Katihar districts. 

Paswan said that some women made enquiries about Nizam even from Howrah, Sealdah, Malda, Midnapore and Asansol. They claimed themselves to be wives of Nizam.

All his wives have one complaint: Nizam never took them to his native village. He used to trap teenaged girls belonging to well-to-do families.

After a few days of marriage he would decamp with the jewelleries and other valuables of the bride.
Police said that he also extorted Rs five lakh from five youths on the pretext of providing them job in the central government organisations. 

Nizam was produced before the chief judicial magistrate at Hajipur, who forwarded him to judicial custody in Hajipur divisional jail for two weeks.

It is a mystery as to why in this age of information technology and communication the parents agreed to marry off their daughters without making much inquiry.