Police have arrested a woman from Nagpur, Maharashtra, who allegedly married eight men and extorted lakhs of rupees from them. The accused, identified as Sameera Fatima, was reportedly looking for her next target and was meeting a potential ninth victim when she was caught.
Following her arrest at a tea shop in Nagpur, police registered a case and launched an investigation.
Officials revealed that Sameera Fatima used matrimonial websites and Facebook to identify her victims, luring them into marriage with emotional narratives.
She would initiate contact through Facebook or WhatsApp calls, sharing fabricated stories about her personal struggles to gain sympathy.
Fatima reportedly claimed she was divorced and had a child to win the trust of her targets. In one earlier incident, she managed to evade arrest by falsely claiming she was pregnant.
Fatima was allegedly blackmailing her husbands to extort money, and preliminary investigations suggest she was working with a gang to carry out the scheme.
According to an eport, Fatima — a teacher by profession — is suspected to have duped several men over the past 15 years, primarily targeting wealthy, married men from the Muslim community.
One of her former husbands claimed that she extorted ₹50 lakh from one victim and ₹15 lakh from another through both cash and bank transfers. Fatima has also allegedly managed to extract money from senior officers of the Reserve Bank. (AGENCIES)
