MUMBAI, Sept. 16 -- A 38-year-old broker from Malad, who had been on the run for three months, was arrested on Monday for allegedly defrauding two businesswomen of Rs.11 lakh. The amount includes a security deposit for the rented space of Rs.5 lakh, Rs.2.5 lakh that he had borrowed from them for his father's treatment, and Rs.3.5 lakh that he had charged to make a new rental agreement, which did not materialise, the police said. According to the police, the ordeal began in July 2024, when the two women, Pooja and Manisha, along with their friend Amol Narendra Mistry, a furniture shop owner from Andheri, came together to run a salon in Malad. For this purpose, they were looking for shop spaces for rent and learnt about the availability in the Rustamji Ozan building on the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road. When they reached out to the owner, Aniruddh Singh, he referred them to his broker, Hansit Harwinder Singh, saying he was the one handling the rental affairs of the space. Hansit told the women that they had to pay a security deposit of Rs.5 lakh and Rs.2.5 lakh as rent each month. Subsequently, they signed a rental agreement in the name of the space owners and the partners of the salon. In August 2024, they paid him a total of Rs.7.5 lakh as the security deposit and the rent for the first month, starting from September, said a police officer. "In September 2024, Hansit borrowed Rs.2.5 lakh from the women, saying that his father was seriously ill," he said. Eventually, differences occurred between the partners of the salon and the two women wanted to get the name of a partner, with whom they had disputes, removed from the agreement, for which Hansit charged them Rs.3.5 lakh. "But before the new agreement could be made, the salon went out of business in June 2025," the officer added. The police said that Hansit, when asked to return Rs.11 lakh, refused to repay, after which the women approached the police....