Meerut, Jan. 29 -- Sambhal police have busted a gang that targeted unmarried men by trapping them into fake marriages and then fleeing with cash and jewellery, arresting the kingpin of the racket, her husband and one woman who posed as a bride to carry out the thefts.

The arrests follow the exposure of at least five such cases in the Chandausi police station area, with police suspecting the gang's operations extended to other regions as well.

According to police, the arrested woman Kajal alias Noorjahan Khatoon is the mastermind of the "looting brides" gang. A resident of the Lal Bazaar police station area in West Bengal, Noorjahan had been living in the Chandausi region under a changed identity. She changed her name to Kajal after she ...