A 30-year-old man, an event management professional was arrested by the Mumbai Police for allegedly faking a robbery of Rs 44.07 lakh that was sent to him by his mother-in-law to fund him in buying a house, the police said on Friday.

According to the police, on February 23, the event management professional who has been identified as Amir Vora had reached out to the Agripada Police and filed a complaint that he was allegedly robbed for lakhs of rupees by two men who posed as police officials.