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Is my bride-to-be ‘clean’?

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Grooms' families seek help of detectives to check on girls' past Sourav's parents had fixed his marriage with Purbasha in January 2015. As the families thrashed out the details, the two of them met separately a couple of times. But what rankled with the boy's side were reports that even a year back, Purbasha and her parents were struggling and had neither decent clothes nor a good place to stay. Then overnight, things changed. They bought a car and moved into a nice apartment. It was then that Sourav's family got in touch with AMX Detectives . "What we found was astonishing. The girl's father had a business and had taken big loans. After the business crashed, they were in dire straits financially. Unfortunately, around this time Purbasha met a 65-year-old man and became his mistress. He looked after her family financially," said Baldev Kumar Puri , the chairman of the AMX Detective Agency . HOW MANY MEN FRIENDS? Reports from various detective ...

Is he a bank manager, or a bank clerk... already married or even gay? Let's hire a private detective

Business is booming for Sanjay Singh, the chief executive of the Indian Detective Agency . The Delhi company, which previously focused on corporate fraud and trademark infringements, has a new and highly lucrative specialism - matchmaking. "My clients want me to check if a man is a bad character or look into a girl's lifestyle and morals," said Mr Singh, sitting in a rundown office that is the perfect caricature of a seedy detective agency. "It used to be just the rich who came to me, but now it's also the middle class." Ever-vigilant Indian parents are increasingly resorting to gumshoes, asking them to check not only the income and professional details of a potential son or daughter-in-law, but also to establish whether they indulge in drugs, alcohol or cigarettes, are concealing infidelity or are even homosexual. Despite Indian society's increased exposure to Western culture, arranged marriages remain a timeless feature, the norm for more than 90 per ...

Mumbai Sniffers: Ever wanted to be a private detective?

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AMX Detective Agency Is Lead By Baldev Puri Maximum Mumbai — the city that never sleeps, the stock exchange behemoth, the desi version of the American dream, heart of filmistan... Hush! There is a lot more than meets the eye on India's richest sea shore. Enter the Mumbai of secrets, corporate frauds and conspiracies, crimes and pre-marital scandals. In this city also roam a class of people ready to sniff, survey and snuff out the hidden. Ironically, for these detectives, 'growth is limitless' because it also means growth in crime. "Growth is limitless. The city is growing by the day and so are essential services," says Gautam Giri, general manager, Maharashtra,"Mumbai is fast becoming like any western city in the world and the citizens are adapting and accepting of hiring private investigators to carry out their requirements." "Growth is exponential here," echoes BK Puri , chairman, AMX Detectives . What has Mumbai got to hide and what do...