Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police on Tuesday sought permission from the court to conduct lie detector test of Ramesh. shepherdWho was arrested last month for posing as a doctor and marrying and cheating on several women in Odisha and outside the state.
“We took Swain on police remand for five days, three days and five days in three phases. His latest remand expired on Tuesday. But he never cooperated with us during the custodial interrogation. To know the truth, we will get his polygraph test done,” said a senior police officer.
Swain, 66, was arrested here on February 14 for marrying at least 18 women and duping them of lakhs of rupees. Besides this, he was allegedly involved in several other types of frauds inside and outside the state.
Police are trying to trace his properties and associates. During interrogation, Swain insisted that he was innocent and that he had not deceived anyone. However, the police have arrested Swain’s sister. Rashmita Beura The police are yet to nab some others, who were part of the gang, for allegedly abetting his crimes.
The police suspect the complicity of Swain’s second wife, a doctor in Jharkhand, and Beura’s husband, in this fraud. But both of them are still absconding.
Recently, the Commissionerate Police circulated photographs and other details to his counterparts in other states to know about Swain’s crime history. Police sources said that Swain has been arrested Kerala Police In 2006 for defrauding several banks to the tune of over Rs 1 crore by making 128 forged credit cards, fake identity cards and salary certificates. He was arrested by the Hyderabad Police in 2010 for allegedly taking Rs 2 crore from several students, promising them admission in medical colleges.
Not only did Swain take money from women after marrying them, but he was also involved in various frauds. He took money in the name of getting people jobs and getting MBBS seats in medical colleges. He tricked people by presenting himself as a doctor, once a senior official of the Union Health Ministry medical council of india (MCI), police said.
“We took Swain on police remand for five days, three days and five days in three phases. His latest remand expired on Tuesday. But he never cooperated with us during the custodial interrogation. To know the truth, we will get his polygraph test done,” said a senior police officer.
Swain, 66, was arrested here on February 14 for marrying at least 18 women and duping them of lakhs of rupees. Besides this, he was allegedly involved in several other types of frauds inside and outside the state.
Police are trying to trace his properties and associates. During interrogation, Swain insisted that he was innocent and that he had not deceived anyone. However, the police have arrested Swain’s sister. Rashmita Beura The police are yet to nab some others, who were part of the gang, for allegedly abetting his crimes.
The police suspect the complicity of Swain’s second wife, a doctor in Jharkhand, and Beura’s husband, in this fraud. But both of them are still absconding.
Recently, the Commissionerate Police circulated photographs and other details to his counterparts in other states to know about Swain’s crime history. Police sources said that Swain has been arrested Kerala Police In 2006 for defrauding several banks to the tune of over Rs 1 crore by making 128 forged credit cards, fake identity cards and salary certificates. He was arrested by the Hyderabad Police in 2010 for allegedly taking Rs 2 crore from several students, promising them admission in medical colleges.
Not only did Swain take money from women after marrying them, but he was also involved in various frauds. He took money in the name of getting people jobs and getting MBBS seats in medical colleges. He tricked people by presenting himself as a doctor, once a senior official of the Union Health Ministry medical council of india (MCI), police said.