Young bride spells doom for 60-year-old hubby

ROURKELA: A Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) employee, who is on the verge of retirement, has landed himself in a soup after marrying a 30-year-old poor woman by giving false information that his wife had passed away.
A case has been registered against 60-year-old Sarat Chandra Das at the Woman police station of Rourkela under Sections 73, 498 (A), 376 (2) (G), 420, 506 and 34 of the IPC, on the complaint of his new wife.Das is absconding.
According to sources, Das, an employee of the coke oven department of the steel plant, has been residing at RSP quarter D/226 in Sector 18 here, with his wife, two sons and a daughter. He is scheduled to retire on September 30. He married the maid of one of his colleagues at the Asurali Devi temple in Bhadrak district on April 13, 2012. The next day the marriage was registered in Bhadrak. In the affidavit, Das allegedly identified himself as Saroj Das, son of Padma Lochan Das and aged 40. On April 15, he returned to Rourkela with his new wife and lodged her in a rented house. Then, within a short span of time, the new bride was made to shift her residence thrice.
When the girl finally came to know the truth, she fled to her village. "I was threatened of dire consequences by my husband and the man at whose place I worked," the woman said. "Since I did not know anybody in Rourkela, I escaped to my village and narrated my plight to my parents and villagers," she said. "Our villagers then tried to contact my former employer and his wife, who played the role of mediators in my marriage. Then me and my family members came to Rourkela and lodged a complaint with the local police station," she added.
"A case has been registered with the local women police station against Sarat Chandra Das and Rabi Sahoo and his wife Anju Barik, who allegedly mediated the marriage. The culprits will be arrested soon," said Sudersan Sethi, additional SP, Rourkela.