Hunt on for conman who duped women

Mumbai: The Thane (rural) police is on the lookout for a 40-year-old alleged conman who jumped bail after being released on a personal bond by the lower court. Identified as Sanjay Dattararay Adsul, the accused is believed to have duped more than 50 women from different states using fake profiles on matrimonial sites and defrauding them of lakhs.

Sanjay had first landed into the custody of the Kashimira police after a woman who was duped of Rs 24 lakh registered a complaint against him. Subsequently, he was nabbed from a lodge at Kashimira in November 2015. Meanwhile, the woman had accused the then investigating officers of deliberately filing a chargesheet with loose ends.

Consequently, the probe was handed over to the crime unit led by police inspector, Rajendra Kamble, who filed a 800-page supplementary chargesheet last year against the accused. After spending nearly two years in jail, Sanjay was released on a personal bond in January 2018. Since then he is untraceable, even as the court has now issued a non-bailable warrant against him, police said.

Meanwhile, investigations have revealed that Sanjay was labeled a “deserter” after he fled from the Indian Navy, a couple of years back. Sanjay, impersonated as an undercover security officer on national duty to target middle-aged women and squeeze money from them by promising marriage. “After scanning his chat history, emails and matrimonial profiles, it appeared that Sanjay who is a native of Sindhudurg, had targeted more than 50 women from different states and had also married some of them. However, only a few came forward to testify against him. A man hunt has been launched to apprehend him,” said Kamble.