Runaway Kerala woman who conned husbands arrested

The police later discovered that she had used similar modus operandi and even married two persons from here.

Saravanan had complained that Shahanaz had slipped away with Rs 25,000 and his gold chain claiming she had to appear for some exam. He decided to approach the police when her cellphone remained switched off,the police said.

Upon interrogation,the police discovered similar complaints were filed against her in different parts of Chennai.

A native of Pathanamthitta district in Kerala,Shahanaz was living with one Siddik there and following differences with him,had moved out to Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu where she later married an art director. She broke up with him as well. Then she joined a supermarket here as an attender,where she absconded with Rs 1.85 lakh borrowed from the proprietor,the police said.

Again,she joined a BPO company in the city where she got acquainted to five men and decided to con them by promising to marry them and even married two of them. All the complainants had alleged that they had been duped and lost money to the accused.