India, Dec. 7 -- A trading firm owner was arrested from Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in Delhi on Friday for duping Rs.4.49 crore from a Gurugram investor, police said on Saturday.

The accused identified as Ravi Chouhan, 45, a resident of Bangar complex at Shahpur Bora in West Bengal, was trying to fly to Kolkata to avoid getting caught, police added.

Chouhan, a high school graduate, was running a trading firm named Kalptaru Shares and Stock Broking Private Limited from 2016 registered with the Registrar of Companies in Kolkata, police said.

A senior police official said that the accused had planned to dupe one of his investors, Apratim Chauhan, to cover up for the hefty losses he had suffered through share market trading....