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The accused, Ramkumar Pandian of Mudichur, had been creating profiles under the alias ‘Ishwarya’ on several matrimonial platforms since 2024. They also froze ₹1.52 lakh lying in his bank account.
Police said he used a woman’s photographs and spoke to the men in a female voice. Whenever prospective grooms requested video calls, he said ‘she’ was undergoing IRS training in Delhi, Faridabad, or Mussoorie and the rules there prohibited video calls. Police said he had also posed as an IRS or Narcotics Control Bureau officer to obtain SIM cards and bank accounts from others.
He then lodged a complaint with the west zone cybercrime police, who traced and arrested Ramkumar in Theni district. Police seized two mobile phones, a laptop, six ATM cards, two passbooks, two cheque books, six SIM cards, an IRS seal, and a ‘narcotics department’ name board from him. Police found that Ramkumar used different SIM cards to pose as the prospective bride, her mother, and her brother. Police initially suspected a gang was operating the fraud but found that Ramkumar had handled the different identities himself.
Ramkumar was arrested and remanded in judicial custody on Sunday.