The Parksite police in Vikhroli have booked a 33-year-old man and three of his family members for allegedly concealing his existing marriage and deceiving a 37-year-old divorced woman into marrying him. They have also been booked for alleged dowry-related harassment, and cheating her family of Rs 24 lakh.

The complainant, a Powai resident and homemaker, had divorced her first husband and was looking to remarry. In 2023, she created a profile on a matrimonial site, where she disclosed that she was divorced. She alleged that the accused introduced himself as an unmarried businessman. They got married in a Buddhist ceremony in Bandra in 2023. The complainant stated that her parents gifted her gold jewellery weighing about 95.44 grams during the wedding. However, within a week of moving into her matrimonial home in Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, she alleged that her husband, father-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law began taunting her for not bringing dowry.