Bhubaneswar, Feb. 23 -- Bhawanipatna: Kalahandi police on Tuesday busted an inter-state marriage racket and arrested four of its members including two women on charges of duping lakhs of rupees from several people.

The accused have been identified as Eli Mahanta from Sundargarh and her associates- Birbal Sharma form Kantabanji, Mina Gupta and Sraban Soni from Chhattisgarh.

The modus operandi of gang is to target elderly or divorced men. While Eli used to be the bride, the three others used to act like her mother, father and uncle helping the former to find a groom, sources in police said adding that Eli used to change her name before every marriage.

"Father of a groom had filed a complaint that the inter-state gang has duped him of Rs ...