Woman lures man online, marries him in fake wedding, then kills for property

A woman from Uttar Pradesh lured a 45-year-old man from Madhya Pradesh into a fake marriage after spotting him in a viral social media reel, only to kill him hours later in a plot to seize his property.

The body of Indra Kumar Tiwari, a resident of Jabalpur, was recovered on June 6 from a drain in the Hata area of Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar. The man had been stabbed to death. The body remained unidentified at first, but the police later matched it to a missing person case from Jabalpur weeks after the incident.

According to police, the mastermind behind the murder is Sahiba Bano, who assumed the identity of Khushi Tiwari, to lure the man. After watching a reel where Tiwari expressed pain over remaining unmarried and mentioned owning 18 bighas of land, Sahiba hatched a plan to trap him.

She contacted him through social media, faked her identity using a forged Aadhaar card and convinced him to come to Gorakhpur, where she with the help of two accomplices, staged a fake marriage ceremony and murdered Tiwari just hours later. His body was dumped in a drain.

During the investigation, police found out that the accused hoped to use the wedding photos to claim ownership of his land as his widow.

The authorities have arrested Sahiba and her two associates, including a man named Kushal, who had also been duped into a similar staged marriage earlier this year. Police believe he was lured with promises of money from the land’s sale post-murder.

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