A 25-year-old woman allegedly dressed up as a man for four years, duped two women into marrying her and tormented one of them for dowry, police in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani said on Thursday. Sweety Sen, a resident of Dhampur in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnore, was “always a tomboy” and started posing as a man, Krishna, in 2013, said Nainital’s senior superintendent of police Janmejay Khanduri. She was arrested on February 14 on charges of impersonation, fraud and forgery. “The lady used to pose as a man in terms of looks and enticed women on Facebook and later married them,” Khanduri said.
Police said Sen created a Facebook account in the name of Krishna Sen in 2013 and uploaded photos posing as a man. She then allegedly chatted with several women on social media. In 2014, Sen travelled to Haldwani’s Kathgodam area to meet a woman she befriended on the social media website. She told the Uttarakhand woman, identified as Kamini, that she was the son of a businessman from Aligarh, said the police. The two women got married later that year, and shortly afterwards, Sen allegedly started beating up Kamini, who holds two masters degrees, for dowry. Sen also allegedly took Rs 8.5 lakh from Kamini’s family, police said.

A 25-year-old woman allegedly dressed up as a man for four years, duped two women into marrying her and tormented one of them for dowry, police in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani said on Thursday. Sweety Sen, a resident of Dhampur in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnore, was “always a tomboy” and started posing as a man, Krishna, in 2013, said Nainital’s senior superintendent of police Janmejay Khanduri. She was arrested on February 14 on charges of impersonation, fraud and forgery. “The lady used to pose as a man in terms of looks and enticed women on Facebook and later married them,” Khanduri said.
Police said Sen created a Facebook account in the name of Krishna Sen in 2013 and uploaded photos posing as a man. She then allegedly chatted with several women on social media. In 2014, Sen travelled to Haldwani’s Kathgodam area to meet a woman she befriended on the social media website. She told the Uttarakhand woman, identified as Kamini, that she was the son of a businessman from Aligarh, said the police. The two women got married later that year, and shortly afterwards, Sen allegedly started beating up Kamini, who holds two masters degrees, for dowry. Sen also allegedly took Rs 8.5 lakh from Kamini’s family, police said.