The Odisha conman accused of duping women across the country by luring them into fraudulent marriages is giving interrogators a tough time. After Ramesh Chandra Swain’s five days of police remand came to end on Thursday, the City Police pleaded for another seven days of remand to confront victims with the trickster, whose frauds ranged from marriages to financial cheating and quackery to shady real estate deals. Swain, who hails from Singhalo village in Kendrapara district, went by the aliases of Dr. Bijayshree Ramesh Kumar, Dr. Bidhu Prakash Swain, and Dr. Ramani Ranjan Swain.
“The man is not revealing anything. When we confront him with the victims of his frauds, only then he is reluctantly admitting to some of the crimes. Now, not many women are showing interest in nailing him through formal registration of case. Victims are probably afraid of losing social respect,” said Umashankar Dash, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar.
“A dedicated group of officers need to carry on sustained interrogation to unravel his crimes,” Mr. Dash said.
