Out on bail, man arrested for duping 4 women

MUMBAI :A 36-year-old man, who was out on bail after being arrested for cheating five women of cash and valuables through matrimonial websites, was recently arrested

MUMBAI :A 36-year-old man, who was out on bail after being arrested for cheating five women of cash and valuables through matrimonial websites, was recently arrested again for cheating four other women through two popular matrimonial websites.

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“He targeted widows or divorcees,” the police said.

The accused, Feroze Ahmed Niyaz Shaikh, 36, is a resident of Meghwadi. He was arrested by the Bangur Nagar police in 2015. He had FIRs registered against him in MRA Marg, Khopoli and Kharghar police stations.

Investigating officer assistant police inspector Sudheer Wagh of Kharghar police station said Shaikh was arrested for five cases between 2014 and 2015. A few days ago, the airport police arrested Shaikh after a 40-year-old woman from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh filed a complaint against him. The woman is a widow and had met Shaikh in August through a matrimonial site.

Shaikh visited her in Indore on August 24 and promised to marry her. Later, she came to Mumbai and stayed at a hotel, from where he stole her belongings worth Rs1 lakh and fled. The police found that he had cheated a woman in Nagpur, who told the police that he had duped two others , after the police phoned her.

Assistant police inspector Siddhanand Mandaokar of Kamtee police station in Nagpur rural said the 31-year-old woman, a divorcee, met the accused, on a matrimonial site, told her his name was Rahman Shaikh and he was working with Air India. He showed an interest to marry her and she gave him her debit card’s PIN. He withdrew Rs73,000 from her account and fled.