'Wedding detectives' enjoy booming trade

JAIPUR: As more and more people flock to city's private detective agencies to dig out details about their prospective spouses, the agencies are making big bucks by offering range of 'pre-matrimonial investigations' including checks on lifestyle, health issues and drug addiction of their clients' would-be bride or groom.

Prerak Paliwal, who runs a city-based investigation agency, said that clients hand over the task of verifying the background of their potential spo use to him. "These days most arranged marriages are either through matrimonial websites or through somebody in the family. This increases the risk of cheating," he added.

Paliwal and his team of investigators find out the whereabouts of the person under the scanner; they sneak into the person's friend circle to collect information about his or her lifestyle and past. "Recently a family had fixed the wedding date of their daughter with a son of an influential family.We conducted background checks of their prospective son-in-law and found about his affairs with multiple women and other false information that he had provided on the matrimonial website," Paliwal added.

The private detectives charge up to Rs 35,000 for range of services including 'spouse fidelity test' and 'financial verification'. "The re are people who tend to in flate their salary figures and exaggerate about themselves on dating and matrimonial websites. We have special resources to prevent such fraudulent cases," said Amit Shaukeen, owner of a city-based private detective agency. Amit added that recently a Jaipur-based girl was all set to get married to a New Delhi-based engineer. The couple met on a dating app and persuaded their parents to agree to their relationship, "The girl's family had some doubts about the boy. Hence, they involved our services. We followed the youth for a few days and found that he was already married and had hidden the information from the girl he was dating," he added. Another private detective on the condition of anonymity said that the trend is rising particularly among young and high earning women who are cautious of men marrying them for their money.

"Information provided by one party may appear convincing enough, but closer investigation often revealed the person's true nature, such as having been in debt, psychological problems, major health issues and criminal history .These can only be reveald after an investigation," the detective said. Paliwal added that he receives around 20 to 35 cases a month and charges according to the difficulty involved in the cases.

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What if the bride or groom has a clean record and finds out their prospective partner has been snooping on them? Wouldn't they feel offended?
Conversely, what if they have something unsavory, find out about the detective on their trail and bribe the detective to give a false "clean report"?

silvermani wrote:What if the bride or groom has a clean record and finds out their prospective partner has been snooping on them? Wouldn't they feel offended?
Conversely, what if they have something unsavory, find out about the detective on their trail and bribe the detective to give a false "clean report"?

The second question / point (the possibility of detective companies issuing false certificates for money) is highly likely. 

As for the first one, potential brides and grooms getting angry at the news of having their backgrounds investigated by detective agencies, might pose no big problem. Moreover, in some cases even when the news from investigations is not positive the marriage may still go ahead because the parties involved don't take it seriously or don't want to lose a good catch / prospect thinking that so what even if the guy has had a few girlfriends / affairs in the past or is known to have a few drinks.