NRI, Jaswinder accused of marrying 23 men in India

UK, Feb 01, 2004

NRI , Jaswinder Kaur from Glasgow has been accused of marrying 23 men, getting engaged to 12 others and collected £40,000. Jaswinder promised to give them visas by sponsering thru marriage. She was detained in India is accused of defrauding a string of husbands and fiancés.

Punjab state police said that Jaswinder Kaur has married twice and become engaged on two other occasions, promising to get her suitors visas to emigrate to the United Kingdom. She admited to marrying two men, Harbans Lal, whom she married in Germany, and Harpal Singh, whom she married last year in Punjab after divorced Harbans.

She told that she married just one other man 26-year-old Harpal Singh while in India. He was confronting her outside Nawanshahr's court on Saturday. He became suspicious of her after she began receiving phone calls from other men day and night. Harpal went to police after he found a suitcase containing 25 Indian passports in her room.

Mr. Surjeet Singh and Sukhdev Singh claimed that they got engaged to be married to her on consecutive days in November last year. Both say they have the photographs and engagement videos to prove it

Jaswinder told police that her parents will repay the money but I have no regrets. She admitted that she had deceived some of the men but she claimed complete strangers were approaching police to say they had lost money to her.

Her parents are too ashamed to come back to the town they emigrated from 30 years ago. Relatives of Jaswinder in India have also been arrested.