'Serial' bride held hours before 8th wedding

Her strategy? After getting mangalasutra, she would vanish within days, cutting off all contact

- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

In a dramatic turn of events, Reshma Chandrasekeran, a woman in her 30s accused of duping at least seven men by marrying them and fleeing with their gold mangalasutras, was arrested just hours before what would have been her eighth wedding, officials said on Saturday.

Reshma, who also has a two-year-old child, was taken into custody by the Aryanadu Police on Friday from a beauty parlour where she was getting ready for the wedding.

Groom grows suspcious

The prospective groom a local body member from Pothencode had grown suspicious and alerted the police.