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Police bust fake marriage racket in Jammu, ‘bride’ among 5 arrested
State Times
|August 24, 2025
Five persons, including a woman from Uttar Pradesh, were arrested after police busted an interstate racket involved in orchestrating fake marriages to extort money from unsuspecting grooms here, officials said on Saturday.
So far, five such cases - three from Akhnoor and two from Nagrota - have come to light, a police spokesman said.
This story is from the August 24, 2025 edition of State Times.
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