India, June 14 -- A 52-year-old man on the run since 2015 after cheating several banks and people in Delhi of lakhs of rupees was tracked down to Haridwar in Uttarakhand where he was impersonating a doctor from AIIMS Rishikesh, the Delhi Police said on Friday, adding that he has been arrested.

The accused, Raj Kumar Sharma, was arrested in 2007 for allegedly cheating nationalised banks by taking vehicle loans on forged documents. He was released from Tihar jail on bail 56 days after his arrest. But in 2015, he sold a plot to two people and issued a cheque for Rs.26 lakh that bounced. Police registered an FIR against him and Sharma absconded, said deputy commissioner of police (crime) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav.

"Sharma vacated his north Delhi ...