India, May 4 -- Five months after she went off the radar, one of the three accused linked to a study-abroad consultancy that allegedly duped a Kandivali doctor of Rs.10.11 lakh on the promise of securing his daughter's admission to a university in the Netherlands has finally been arrested. The Charkop police on Saturday nabbed Shraddha Vitthal Gadekar, while the alleged masterminds, Stella Rakesh Mehta and her husband Rakesh Mehta, remain absconding.

Gadekar is currently in police custody. Investigators say the Mehta couple, who ran the firm 'Career and Options', have multiple fraud cases registered against them across Mumbai and Thane, and are suspected to have cheated several aspiring students and parents of lakhs of rupees with simila...