You know what they say – fact is stranger than fiction? Well, the story of Sweety Sen, who posed as a man, married twice, made dowry demands and got arrested; is one factual story that really is stranger than any story that a novel writer or even Bollywood would dream of. So peculiar is the story that one wonders if it happens only in India?
Sweety Sen is from Dhampur, Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh. Sources say that she was always something of a tomboy while growing up. In 2013, she also started posing as a man and took the name Krishna for her new male persona. She kept her hair short, rode a motorcycle, used abusive language and smoked. Sweety started a Facebook account in the name of Krishna Sen and started to lure women.
Sen ‘met’ a 22-year-old Kamini online in 2014; convincing her that she was a man. The woman has a double master’s degree. After that, Sen and her family travelled to Kathgodam near Nainital to meet the family of the girl and later the two got married. After the marriage, the couple lived in a rented house in Haldwani. According to police sources, Sweety used sex toys to consummate the marriage and create the illusion of being a man.
Soon after the marriage, Sweety/Krishna started to beat 'his' wife Kamini and make dowry demands. Sweety/Krishna managed to extract Rs 8.5 lakhs from the family of the bride saying that she needed money for the CFL factory she had in Hardwar.
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