In a rather strange case, the Uttarakhand police have arrested a woman for posing as a man and marrying to other women. The woman is also alleed to have tortured one of her 'wives' for dowry.
The woman has been identified as Sweety Sen who went with the alias Krishna Sen.
In 2013, Sweety Sen created a “fake” Facebook profile under the name -‘Krishna Sen’. Sen, who posted her photographs in a man’s attire, used the Facebook account to lure other women, Nainital Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Janmejay Khanduri said. In 2014, Sen, along with her family, travelled from Dhampur to Kathgodam in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district to meet a 22-year-old woman, whom Sen had lured on Facebook.
“Sen had convinced her that she was a man,” Khanduri said. The two got married the same year and lived in a rented house in Nainital district’s Haldwani town, but soon Sen started beating the woman for dowry. In 2016, Sen married a 20-year-old woman from Nainital district’s Kaladhungi area, and moved to Haridwar with her.
Sen used sex toys to maintain an illusion that she was a male, police said, adding she never revealed her true identity to the two women. In October 2017, in an FIR filed against Sen in the Kathgodam police station for dowry and domestic violence, “Sen’s first wife” mentioned that Sen had extracted Rs 8.5 lakh from her family saying that the money was needed for a factory that Sen allegedly owned in Haridwar, Kathgodam police said.
The police told HT that Krishna (alias Sweety) then started beating her wife and demanded dowry from her. She took around Rs 8.5 lakh from her wife and used it to set up a factory.
Krishna then went on to marry another girl from Kaladhungi. The second woman had attended Krishna's first marriage as a guest. Krishna rented a room in Haldwani and kept both the wives there.
A police official quoted Sen as having said that she dressed up as a boy since her childhood, and had cut her hair to look the part.
After her “marriages”, Sen allegedly did not let the women look at her body or touch her and used sex toys to consummate the relationship, police said. A medical examination concluded that Sen was biologically a woman, Khanduri added.
Krishna's bluff was called after the first wife registered a complaint with the police.
The girl from Kaladhungi came to know that Krishna was not a man, but she was coaxed into silence with the promise of money.
“We were married for two years, I found the truth about her later. I did not register a complaint. I don’t want to live with her now,” Nisha told.
Sen was originally charged with dowry harassment but police said they modified the complaint as none of the two unions qualified as marriage.
“Krishna has been booked for forgery and not for dowry. Technically she was not a husband therefore it cannot be treated as marriage,” said Sanjay Joshi, sub inspector, Kathgodam who is investigating the case.
