Hours after mid-day reported on touts in the marriage officer’s premises, offering to send the officer for ‘home visits’ to register marriages on Valentine’s Day, a Sunday, for huge sums of money, not only the agents but also the furniture set up for their laptops disappeared. During a visit to the office, mid-day found that the place which was teeming with agents last week was bare on Monday. 

Marriage Officer Sharayu Vivek Sawant told mid-day, “Earlier, many agents would visit my office but I regularly inspected the premises. I never saw any agent occupying seats here and doing work. I also instructed my staff to take action if they found any agent inside the office premises.”