Mumbai Police on the lookout for MP woman,

who files fake cases against men after ‘marrying” them

The Mumbai Police is on the lookout for a lady, who is in the habit of filing rape cases, after fake marriages with men. In the latest incident, the lady has filed a rape case against a 30-year-old, resident of Andheri in Mumbai, after ‘marrying’ him.

Harshita Pandey, the woman in question, did not tell her latest victim that she was already married and that divorce proceedings were underway. The Mumbai man is a divorcee and had registered himself on a matrimony site, as his parents insisted that he should remarry.

Pandey, contacted him on the basis of his information on the matrimony site. The man went to Indore, where Pandey, stayed with her parents and brother. Pandey and the victim got married according to Arya Samaj rites. The husband then said he would make an application for their marriage certificate. But she told him that she would make the application. After a few days, she handed over a marriage certificate to her husband.

Some days, later the man received a message on his social media account warning him to leave the woman alone as she was married to the sender of the message and that the sender would file an adultery case against him for staying with a married lady. When he asked about the message, Pandey and her mother claimed that it was a fake message.

However, soon Pandey filed a rape case against her Mumbai husband. On learning about the case, he went to the registrar’s office to get a copy of his marriage certificate. It was then that he learnt that no application was made for registration of the marriage and the one he was given by Pandey was fake.

He also learnt that she had previously married a man in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and their divorce proceedings were still underway. He then filed a complaint of cheating at the Amboli police station and alleged that she threw him out of his own house and stole his furniture and other valuables. She also complained to the organisation, where her victim was employed and told the organisation that the man was a rapist, following which he lost his job.

According to the police, her mother Vandana Pandey, father Dinesh Pandey and brother Harshal Pandey—all residents of Saptasrungi Nagar in Indore are involved in the racket. They are not traceable according to the police.

The police suspect she could have cheated more than three people.

In another case, she had decided to marry another Mumbai man, but four days before their wedding, she approached the Jhansi police in Madhya Pradesh and filed a case of dowry against him and his family. She also took Rs1.5 lakh from the man to settle the case, police said.

She has demanded an alimony of Rs 8 lakh from her husband in Indore, from whom she separated two months after their marriage.