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For a new India, a new calling: the wedding sleuth

By TIM SULLIVAN

Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI – Ajit Singh knows about the lies people tell.

He has followed them through the littered, mildewed mazes of New Delhi’s middle class neighborhoods. He has photographed them as they leave their lovers’ apartments. He hears them exaggerate their salaries and hide their illnesses.

A thin man in an ill-fitting suit, Singh works out of a crowded office around the corner from a muffler shop. An incense stick burns behind his desk. A sign in slightly fractured English warns the staff: “Walls Has Ears And Eyes Too. BE ALERT.”