Police in Navi Mumbai has arrested a 35-year-old chartered accountant from Pune for allegedly cheating people of lakhs through "task" fraud, news agency PTI reported quoting an official.

The police apprehended Akash Umesh Pandey, a chartered accountant with a private firm, from Lohegaon in Pune on November 4 in a case registered against him under section 420 (cheating) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act, senior inspector Gajanan Kadam of the cyber police station said.