A man named Vimal Karia from Gujarat’s Porbandar filed a petition with the magistrate to annul his marriage after he found out that his wife was a wanted criminal in Assam.

Vimal found this lady named Rekha Das on a matrimonial site and eventually got married to her, only to realise later that she was a wanted gangster from Assam and was accused of robbing, theft, murder and hunting.

Rekha Das, who introduced herself as a religious person, was on the run to evade a non-bailable warrant issued by an Assam court.

As Vimal and Rita started talking to each other after getting in touch through a matrimonial website, they quickly decided to tie the knot. But Rita was married to someone else before meeting Vimal. So Vimal asked Rita for divorce papers before they wed, but Rita misled him and claimed that she had been married once before, in the panchayat, which is why she lacks the actual wedding certificate. 

Vimal trusted Rita, and the two were married in Ahmedabad. Rita left the house after only six months of marriage, claiming she needed to handle a land matter in Assam; however, she never returned.

According to Vimal, Rekha had rushed to settle a land issue in Assam after receiving a call from her mother. 

Rita claimed, “I married Anil in 2007, and the car theft case was registered in 2015. I haven’t talked to Anil since then. For the time being, Anil Chauhan is jailed.”

Rita insisted she had nothing to do with car theft, but she was actually arrested in 2015 for being a culprit in the theft of a BMW from the Assam Assembly. 

With the help of her friend, the then-MLA Rumi Nath, Rita had secured the entry pass. The MLA  had no idea that Anil was a car thief. When Rumi Nath asked Rita about it, she said that Rita’s husband had expressed an interest in viewing the premises.

While Vimal was reviewing the divorce papers, he found that his wife’s name was Rekha Chauhan, not Sharma. He searched for the same on Google which confirmed that Rekha Chauhan is a ‘wanted’ criminal.