detectives are now hired to check not just fidelity and bank balance but food habits and gender preferences tooauthor andre berthiaume said we all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin this cant be truer when it comes to finding a spouse people effectively hide facts about themselves their families work and more in a bid to snare others into marriage while camouflaging flaws is one thing what is alarmingly on the rise is to lie about ones gender preference enter the private detective more parents are hiring such investigators to dig out the facts to help them make a sound decisionthe way people lie is shocking affirming the trend citybased detective ranjani pandit says earlier a majority of clients just wanted to check on their fiancs fidelity their bank balances and property titles or assets but now a persons real gender is also being suspected citing examples the detective elaborates the way people lie is shocking and so many of these cases came to the fore last year parents are most worried as they feel they cant ask questions openly however we find out and tell them what they want to know in less than a month the truth she adds is often swept under the carpet a 35yearold woman recently came to me to snoop on her husband who she had married early this year he wouldnt have any relationship with her it was only over time that she realised she married a woman she was asked to continue with her life as her family was afraid of how their social circle would react she says while the thrust of these investigations is on the persons financial condition questions also crop up on premarital affairs and to see if heshe has a child from a previous relationship we also get calls to check the sexual preferences of the groom and bride this happens a lot now and across all walks of life reveals another detective sanjay patilveg or nonveg food choice is also an issue in several cases prewedding enquiry about a suitors background also brings up questions on their food preferences and this can be a huge cultural concern how does one unravel that we ask there is quite a different method to find this out reveals detective sanjay kapoor for one we tap the persons friend circle and start the enquiries in some cases we are also asked to find out whether the person is a lesbian or homosexualmatrimonial profile scares dealing with deceptive wedding profiles on matrimonial sites is another issue says private intelligence agent amit sen what is scary is that people behind these profiles often turn out to be fraudsters who just want to extract money and gullible girls fall prey to them there was this woman who kept helping a man with money every time he asked for it he even asked her for finance to book the marriage hall which