Why oh why?!

While reading the newspaper (Times of India)  yesterday, the following headline caught my eye:






I read it with interest as I have spent a part of my life at Kochi  and  mysecond book 'Life is what you make it' is partly set in Kochi, and Kochi is also mentioned in my fourth book 'The secret wish list.



After I read the piece I was quite surprised.



This is what the brief news-story says:

Kochi: The city police on Tuesday arrested an Army man
after he allegedly married a woman impersonating another person by
creating a fake identity proof.Police said the arrested identified as
Rajeev (48) of Chengannur was already married and had two children.He
faked his identity by keeping his first marriage a secret.
Police said the accused was working at the digital mapping unit of the Indian Army in Bangalore.
The accused will be sent to judicial custody after producing him before the court on Wednesday.
Police
said the accused,who responded to a matrimonial advertisement in a
newspaper,introduced himself as Sreekumar,an Army officer staying alone
in Bangalore,to the family members of the woman.He met the victim,who
came on leave from Riyadh,and fixed the marriage with her family
members.On May 26,the marriage was held at a temple.Though the victims
family had organized a reception at a city auditorium,he refused to
attend it and instead wanted her to accompany him to a hotel where he
was staying.

 

One of the relatives of the girl, questioned this guy and he gave inconsistent answers. The relative grew suspicious when he probed further and then finally they alerted the cops, who caught him in no time.

 

It is obvious that the guy wasn't really in love with the girl he married.  Or was he?



Why would a married man (that too a father of two children) go to such great lengths as to impersonate another man, respond to a matrimonial ad and get married a second time? If he was in it, just for sex, he could have easily got it elsewhere!  Was he after her money? (The report doesn't say whether the girl is wealthy). If he was after her money, wouldn't he have attended the wedding reception, kept on the charade on for a few months more, won her trust completely and then vanished with the money?



I found the story fascinating.



What is your take on this? Why did he do it?

Any theories?



Would love to know what you think!

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