Amravati, June 27 -- A 27-year-old woman was arrested in Andhra Pradesh after her marriage scam came to light, with police discovering that she had married five times to defraud grooms.

The accused, identified as Vajramani alias Shweta Reddy, had been on the run since 2025 after deserting an Anantapur man, Yaparla Sudheer Reddy and fleeing with Rs 3.8 lakh dowry.

Hailing from East Godavari district, Vajramani reportedly married multiple times, relying on middlemen, Suma Priya, Ashok, Shashikala, and Ramakrishna, who helped with the fraudulent matches to extort money from unsuspecting grooms.

Police had been on the lookout for the accused bride after finding that she had been operating the racket with the middlemen, and confirmed that t...