Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate of Police has traced another 3 wives of the fake doctor Ramesh Swain alias Bidhu Prakash (54). Swain who posed as a doctor and Health Ministry official has married at least 17 women in his ‘career’ spanning 30 years.
The man who started the wedding stint in 1982 at Kendrapara, has married highly educated women holding key posts in the Government. On Wednesday, the Twin City police stated that the man has conned three more women apart from the 14 wives traced so far.
According to the police, Swain has got married to three more women from Chhattisgarh, Assam, and Odisha. The Guwahati-based wife is a doctor, Chhattisgarh is a Chartered Accountant and from Odisha is highly educated.
Swain was arrested from Khandagiri area of the city following a complaint by lodged by his seventh wife. He used to target middle-aged single women and abandon them after looting money. Lawyers, teachers, doctors and highly-educated women, most of them from outside Odisha, are among the victims, the police stated.
