BANDA: It could well be the real-life enactment of the Bollywood film, Dolly Ki Doli. Like Sonam Kapoor, who plays the devious dulhan in the movie, Nirmala Thakur too saw matrimony as her road to wealth so much so that the woman sat on the wedding mandap allegedly with 18 wealthy men.

A woman and her accomplice have been arrested in Banda district for allegedly trying to extort money from a man by threatening to implicate him in a fake case, a police official said here.

The gang run by a couple was running from Chattisgarh .

The couple with the help of a sadhvi were extorting money from people by charging them with false rape, kidnapping cases after the woman was married to a prospective groom.

Nirmala Thakur, the gang head, married Ghanshyam, resident of Banda, on July 10. Later with the help of sadhvi Malti Shukla, the gang extorted Rs 50,000 from the victim.

Three days after the marriage, Kuldeep, husband of Nirmala, came to Ghanshyam's house and alleged that he kidnapped his wife and demanded Rs 2 lakh. When Ghanshyam refused to give any money, Kuldeep filed an FIR. Police during investigation came across that Nirmala had run away with the jewellery and money.

On further investigations, police came to know that Nirmala used to dupe people on false marriage promise and later extort money from them.

Police has arrested Nirmala, Kuldeep and sadhvi Malti in the case.

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