Bigamist tricks his 14 wives

Indian Engineer Tushar Waghmare has been charged with bigamy after marrying 14 wives in only less than two and a half years.

This case has revealed how desperate middle-class women in India are for a high-status husband.

Most of Waghmare's wives were highly educated, but were so into his professional qualifications that they did not question his marital backgrounds. Marriage is the most important aspect in India's strict hierarchical society.

The 40 yr old is an Air India engineer from Mumbai, and found the women on websites by describing himself as a divorcee looking for a woman with high career.

Three of the women that replied were in fact, ironically engineers or achitects, and they all married him.

The investigators reported that Waghmare has met all their families and impressed them with his $2000 dollars a month that they did not question him why he was only spending three nights a month with his newly wedded wife before saying he had to go and work away from home.

Detectives said that he was discovered when his salary would not cover all his 14 families, and they had to support him instead.

"None of them ever thought of doing a background check as they would be impressed with his job profile," reported a policeman.

However, this isn't the case in the US where a woman forced her husband to stand in public with a sign saying "I cheated. This is my punishment."

Willian Taylor in Virginia was embarrassed on a busy road with the large cardboard sign around his neck after his wife found out on his mobile.

Taylor told the TV: "I got to do what I got to do to make things right. So here I am."

After two hours and many honks from passing vehicles, his wife called him to say that he could come home.