Hyderabad, May 2 -- The Mumbai police have arrested a man from Hyderabad for allegedly cheating a number of women of lakhs of rupees across several states after promising to marry them, officials said on Wednesday.

The accused would contact unsuspecting women on matrimonial sites and swindle large sums of money promising marriage, they said.

The man, identified as Imran Ali Faiz Ali Khan, was apprehended by personnel of Mumbai's Pydhonie Police Station on Tuesday, an official said.

The crime came to light when a 42-year-old woman from the Pydhonie area lodged a police complaint against the accused for cheating her of Rs 21.73 lakh after coming across her profile on a matrimony site, he said.

Khan came in contact with the woman in 2023...