Kolkata Police on Tuesday arrested a woman, Bachendri Roy, from Salt Lake for faking a marriage with a 28-year-old bachelor, Niladri Dutta, and then lodging the false case against him. The woman was produced in a Barasat court and remanded in police custody for three days. Earlier, Dutta was arrested under sections 498A and 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC for cruelty against his ‘wife’ in December 2022. Dutta got bail after spending 34 days in jail.

Dutta and Roy are colleagues in an IT firm. Police said the woman had hatched the plot to put Dutta behind bars and teach him a lesson for breaking up with her.