A 27-year-old man who allegedly used to con people by posing as a Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration official has been arrested while his associate, a woman, is on the run, the police said on Monday.

Rahul Sarate had called a chemist shop posing as an FDA official and told the owner that a woman named Surekha Patil had complained that she was sold an edible item past its expiry date, a police officer said.