THANE COP HELD FOR KIDNAPPING SECOND WIFE

THANE: More than a year after his second wife, who was five months pregnant when she went missing from Vajreshwari in Palghar district, the Mumbra police on Wednesday arrested a police constable on charges of adultery and kidnapping his second wife.

Arun Shelar, 42, works as a constable in Thane jail and was already married and had two children from his first wife when he married Jasintha, 33, in May 2017. Jasintha has been missing since July 2017. According to the police, Jasintha was threemonths pregnant at the time of their marriage.

“Even after marrying Shelar, my sister used to stay at our place,” said Nelson Gomes, 23, Jasintha’s younger brother.

According to Gomes, Jasintha had gone to Vajreshwari temple on July 20, 2017. When Gomes met Shelar on July 27 in Thane, he had asked Shelar about Jasintha but he avoided his repeated questions and instead asked Gomes to approach the police. On July 28, 2017, a missing complaint was lodged with the Mumbra police.

In February this year, Mumbra police told Gomes that Jasintha’s last location was at Vajreshwari, but the mobile phone was found in Gujarat. “After interrogating the man who was using the phone nothing related to Jasintha was found. We have formed a team and a search operation is going on. We also produced Shelar in court and he was remanded in police custody till August 14,” said D Swami, deputy commissioner of police from zone 1.