India, Jan. 29 -- A 51-year-old jewellery showroom owner was arrested in Delhi for his alleged involvement in a cyber fraud in which Rs.1.9 crore was syphoned off from an elderly couple residing in Faridabad's Sector 29, police said on Wednesday.

The accused was identified as Amit Shakuja, a resident of Tagore Garden in West Delhi, where he owns a jewellery showroom, police said. They added Shakuja was arrested on January 23 and produced before a city court the following day, which granted a three-day police remand. He was sent to judicial custody on Tuesday.

Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said Shakuja owns a showroom named VS Jewellers in West Delhi. "He had used the firm's details to open a mule current a...