India, Jan. 28 -- A Malaysian man was detained while trying to use an illegal sea route to enter the country in an attempt to keep his second marriage a secret from his first wife. Authorities caught him while he was returning home from Indonesia without a passport.

The man, from the Malaysian state of Perak, claimed that he was forced to use "backdoor" channels because his first wife had his passport, She was unaware that he had another family in Medan, Indonesia.

The man was caught along with 28 undocumented migrants by the Selangor Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) during a special operation on January 26, according to a report in New Strait Times.

According to Selangor maritime authorities, the man admitted that his firs...