Woman arrested for ‘marrying’ 11 men: At her address, occupants say they don’t know accused

A day after a team of Kerala police officers arrested 28-year-old Megha Bhargava from an eleventh floor house at Amrapali Zodiac Apartments in Noida Sector 120 for allegedly duping a Kochi resident of Rs 15 lakh, occupants of the flat — 1104 — declined to answer queries about the arrest. “Please leave us alone. We have no connection with her. The news doing the rounds are false,” said a woman’s voice behind the closed main door.

In October, Loren Justin approached a police station in Kochi city, alleging that his wife had gone missing with jewellery worth Rs 15 lakh shortly after the wedding. In the weeks that followed, the police investigation revealed that this was not the first time Justin’s ‘wife’, Bhargava, had disappeared right after her wedding. “The team of police officers from Kerala informed us that the woman had allegedly done the same thing to 10 others. While there were three such cases in Kerala, the others happened in Maharashtra and Rajasthan among other places. She was living in the flat with her sister and brother-in-law for the last four weeks,” said a senior police officer attached to the Gautam Budh Nagar district.

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Neighbours and security guards at the housing society in Noida, on the other hand, maintained that they were unaware of the background of residents of flat number 1104. “I came to know about this episode only today morning when I saw it in the newspapers. I did not even know that people were living here till my domestic help told us so today. It is shocking that this has happened,” said a woman who resides on the same floor.

The Kerala police, after probing the case for two months, got a tip-off that the accused were living in Noida. “The Kerala police had been investigating the background of the accused. She was living with her sister Prachi and her brother-in-law Devendra Sharma in that flat. All three were arrested on Saturday afternoon,” police said.

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