Jammu, Aug. 24 -- Police have busted an inter-state fake marriage racket and arrested five persons, including a woman from Uttar Pradesh

The gang was involved in orchestrating fake marriages to extort money from unsuspecting grooms here.

So far, five such cases - three from Akhnoor and two from Nagrota - have come to light, a police spokesman said.

Terming the arrests, which also included two locals and two outsiders, a "breakthrough", he said police registered an FIR on August 11 at the Akhnoor police station after receiving a complaint about a fraudulent marriage.

Deepak Kumar, a resident of Dhana Chapri, approached the complainant, Rashpal Chand from nearby Dori Dager, with a marriage proposal from outside the Union territory and d...