Bengaluru: Claiming to run an old-age home and needing vehicles to ferry elderly residents to hospitals and other places, a 48-year-old man rented cars from people, pledged them with others and cheated people of lakhs of rupees. Hulimavu police arrested Sunil Kumar (48), a resident of JP Nagar 8th Phase and native of Kundapura in Udupi district. Cops recovered 12 cars worth around Rs 1.2 crore from him.One of his victims, a resident of Vijaya Bank Layout, lodged a complaint on Sept 17 saying Sunil claimed to be running an old-age home near Talaghattapura on Kanakapura Main Road. Using this pretext, he took cars on rent and pledged them with different people to raise money, thereby cheating the vehicle owners.
