Story Of India’s Tinder Swindler, Man Who Married 27 Women From 10 States & Stole Their Money

The scam is very common in today’s world. As people’s needs are increasing day by day, people are also walking on wrong paths to fulfil their needs. A scam is one of them.

It’s shocking to see how individuals would go to any length for money, as this 66-year-old man recently displayed! But that’s the reality of some people in today’s world.

The crew was caught off guard when Ramesh Chandra Swain appeared from his leased car. This wasn’t your typical Don Juan situation. He was barely 5 feet 2 inches tall.

As Swain was surrounded from all sides, he surrendered with a faint smile. By the time the police team had done questioning him, they knew they had apprehended one of Odisha’s most notorious scammers.

Who is Ramesh Kumar Swain?

This small, chubby man with a groomed moustache might look like an average Indian man by face but inside, he is one of Odisha’s most notorious fraudsters and a habitual swindler who has married 27 women from at least ten states, fabricated 128 credit cards, and scammed 13 Kerala banks of ₹1 crores. He’s also been accused of defrauding individuals out of ₹2 crores by making false promises of MBBS seats in Hyderabad.

According to reports, the fraudster, Ramesh Chandra Swain was apprehended by Odisha police while riding in a vehicle in Bhubaneswar. He is a well-known scammer in Odisha, having married middle-aged, educated, and well-off ladies from several states only to rob them afterwards.

How does he manage to scam women so easily?

The accused approached ladies under the mask of a doctor and fooled them, according to the police. The Bhubaneswar Police Department has organized a task group to assist all of his victims, which currently number over 90 women.

Ramesh Chandra Swain, a sexagenarian, altered his identity to Dr Bibhu Prakash Swain and Dr Ramani Ranjan Swain to fool ladies. He found his targets on marriage websites like Jeevansathi.com, Shaadi.com, and Bharatmatrimony.com. He was born and raised in a seaside hamlet in Odisha’s Kendrapara district.

Despite being 10th pass, he pretended to be professor Bidhu Prakash Swain, 51-year-old deputy director-general of health education and training with a salary of 50-70 lakh a year. As written by him on one his matrimonial site,

“Though he looked more than 60 in real life, his victims ignored it while considering his government job. Swain took full advantage of the women’s helplessness and laid elaborate traps.”

Married 27 women from 10 states

A Supreme Court lawyer, a Kerala Administrative Service official, a Chartered Accountant, assistant commandant of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, a senior executive from an insurance business, and physicians were among his brides. Swain targeted ladies over the age of 40 who were going through a divorce or had family problems.

Swain’s clumsy introduction should have been a red flag, but the ladies he contacted were all over 40. And as we have already mentioned that these ladies are dealing with societal pressures and family issues.

Who tipped the police about him?

Sanjana was lured to Bibhu Prasad Swain’s profile on a popular Indian matrimony website right away. They had a quick romance and married shortly after. The pair then relocated 1,000 kilometres to Bhubaneswar. Things soon deteriorated there.

When Sanjana moved in with him, she found a startling discovery.

Sanjana was informed by her domestic worker shortly after arriving in Bhubaneshwar in 2018 that Swain was previously married to more than one lady. When he wasn’t at home, she went through his apartment and uncovered disturbing documentation on all of his former spouses in a cabinet he typically kept closed.

What does the police say about him?

Umashankar Dash, Bhubaneswar deputy commissioner told about him, saying,

“Though he looked more than 60 in real life, his victims ignored it while considering his government job. Swain took full advantage of the women’s helplessness and laid elaborate traps.”

He was arrested after 38 years after one of his wives from Delhi, whom he married in 2020, filed a police complaint. Sections 498 (A), 419, 468, 471, and 494 of the Indian Penal Code were used to make his arrest possible.

Swain first deceived a lady in 1982 and repeated it till 2020. In 2020, he married a teacher in Delhi’s Arya Samaj Mandir. It was his most recent marriage.

Before his marriage scams, Ramesh was arrested in 2006 and 2010 for defrauding 13 banks, and scamming medical students by promising them government jobs.

As long as society pushes women into weddings, fraudsters like Swain will exist. Incidents like this, hopefully, encourage society to reflect and learn from them.