Hyderabad: A 30-year-old Special Police constable who tried to cheat a woman by offering to marry her while concealing his first marriage, was arrested on Thursday.

T Haricharan Teja posted his profile on a matrimonial site. Seeing the advertisement, Mr P. Bhaskar, brother of the victim, Aruna, 26, of Manchal in Ranga Reddy district, contacted him. Teja met Aruna in October and their marriage was fixed, after her family agreed to give Rs 2.5 lakh as dowry. Later Teja took Rs 1 lakh as advance, police said.

Teja’s wife Pushpalatha, who was monitoring his online activity, came to know of his matrimonial profile and found Ms Aruna’s contact details from his chat history.

“She approached Aruna and alerted her about Teja’s first marriage,” Manchal inspector, M. Gangadhar said.

Following this, Aruna’s family lodged a complaint with the police. On Wednesday when Teja came to Manchal to collect the rest of the money, he was arrested. During the inquiry police found that he had earlier cheated a Guntur-based-woman of Rs 2 lakh in the sasme way. Police are inquiring to see if there are more victims.