Matrimonial profile with dubious sheen? Tech-armed sleuths can well verify it all.
Sitting in her office that바카라s into an offbeat sort of detective work, Taralika Lahiri recalls a two-year-old case where a woman suspected her fiancé to be gay. 바카라I made a Facebook profile of a man and approached him over chat line. He would like me to talk to him late into the night. The nature of the conversations revealed he was homosexual,바카라 says the veteran, who heads National Detectives and Corporate Consultants.
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Yes. When it comes to a marital relation, Indian families these days are keen to know about matters beyond just conventional: the boy바카라s/girl바카라s personal history, financial position, social status and caste hierarchy, among other things. Topics like sexual orientation and probable infidelity are gaining increased vitality in the anxiety lists of alliance seekers.
In tune with their times, detectives today are increasingly using social media to study the subject바카라s behaviour and look for clues into their past. For that, the sleuths gather every possible bit of publicly available data about the person. Here, Facebook forms a crucial source.
That was how Rahul Rai Gupta got yet another client. His secret agency was asked to probe a 32-year-old Delhiite바카라by her fiancé바카라s family from Chandigarh. The woman was found to be on Facebook using a different name. 바카라We soon learned she was a divorcee and had a seven-year-old child,바카라 says the detective. 바카라These were facts she had concealed from the prospective groom바카라s family.바카라
Gupta has juicier stories to tell. Last year, a 30-year-old divorcee from Delhi thought she had found her man. She spotted him on a matrimonial website. He reciprocated. Both did the preliminaries, during which she was told that the man, too, had an earlier marriage annulled. The two decided to tie the knot. Yet, the woman approached a detective to do a check on her fiancé바카라s finances.
바카라She only wanted to know about his salary, but I sensed something fishy in the story of his divorce he had told her,바카라 says Gupta, sitting in his suitably ill-lit office at Satya Niketan. 바카라The woman argued that she was convinced of his loyalty, but I insisted we went for a full probe. Finally, she agreed,바카라 he adds, a hat perched on a coat rack next to him and certificates of detective association conferences tiling the wall behind.
Gupta hits a key on his computer and the door to his chamber unlocks with a buzz, letting in the office boy who serves water. Sipping it, the middle-aged man recalls what led him to the profession in 1995: inspiration from Ved Prakash Sharma바카라s detective novels in Hindi. Gupta is now director of Secret Watch Detectives, one of the capital city바카라s 500-odd detective agencies that probe cases ranging from matrimonial to corporate matters.
To crack the divorcee바카라s case, a woman in Gupta바카라s detective바카라s team sent the man a friend request on FB, using a fictitious name. (The team keeps several such profiles for such purposes.) 바카라Our member posed as a 바카라free-thinking바카라 woman living away from parents and looking for 바카라fun바카라,바카라 says the detective. 바카라In four days of chat, the man revealed he was married and seeking fun outside it.바카라 Gupta바카라s agency gave the woman its report along with recommendations.
It바카라s a routine exercise for such enterprises to approach the subject through the made-up profile of a woman or a man, and see how he or she responds to the advances. 바카라Aap Ram dhoondoge toh Ram toh nahin milega (If you are going to look for Ram, you won바카라t find him). As it is, there are no Sitas (the lord바카라s wife),바카라 Gupta chuckles. 바카라Almost every subject reciprocates to some extent. Some are desperate to meet and have sex. We flag them and advise our clients against taking the matter further.바카라
Facebook posts reveal a lot about the person, argues Sachit Kumar, a second-generation detective, his father having founded the Globe Detective Agency in 1961. 바카라The man바카라s nature, character, history, how much of a show-off he is, whether or not he is introvert, one who likes the company of women or men, the clubs he visits, his affairs, friend circle바카라you name it, we can figure each out by a study of his FB profile,바카라 says the middle-aged sleuth, an MBA from University of Glasgow.
Kumar recounts a six-month-old case wherein a family asked the sleuth to investigate the details of a man with whom their daughter was in love. 바카라We scanned his profile as well as that of his friends. The man had told the spouse바카라s family that he didn바카라t smoke, but in at least five photographs he was seen with a cigarette. Also, he had said he was just a social drinker, but in every other photo the man was seen with friends in a club, a glass of drink with him,바카라 says Kumar.
To the detective, comments on posts and photos are more telling. 바카라If you see increased online activity of a woman on a man바카라s profile, you know he is likely to be into a relationship,바카라 he says, matter-of-factly. 바카라Well, we have even sensed a pattern to such increased activities by different women, where almost each revealed the man had been in several relationships,바카라 says Kumar, whose father had initially forced him into the profession, which he began enjoying subsequently.
바카라For instance,바카라 recalls Kumar, 바카라a subject of mine was seen to have posted on FB a photo of him with a girl. Below it read a comment, 바카라Achchhi jodi hai바카라 (lovely pair). The subject acknowledged it with a 바카라Thanks바카라. Obviously, he was having an open affair. This, when he was committed to my client바카라s daughter,바카라 the detective says. 바카라But then the client바카라s daughter was madly in love with the boy. She went ahead and married him.바카라
Matrimonial investigations are like a game of bridge with a twist at every step, Kumar adds. Social media has added a 바카라big good masala바카라 to the business.