The 25-year-old woman was arrested based on a complaint by one of her beaus, Saravanan, who was allegedly cheated by her under the pretext of marrying him.
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 and he decided to approach the police when her cell phone remained switched off, resulting in him getting supicious, police said.
Upon interrogation, police discovered similar complaints were filed against her in different parts of Chennai even as she had absconded.
A native of Pathanamthitta district in Kerala, Shahanaz was living with one Siddik there and following differences with him, had moved out to Tiruchirappaly in Tamil Nadu where she later married an Art Director.
She broke up with him also and joined a supermarket here as attender, where she absconded with Rs 1.85 lakh from the proprietor after she borrowed the money, police said, adding, she later joined a BPO company in the city.
There 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.
