Mumbai Police Tuesday said it arrested a 47-year-old man from Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district who had been on the run in a cheating case for the last 26 years, officials said.

Identified as Bhausaheb Tijore, he is accused of cheating a woman of Rs 5 lakh under the pretext of getting her loan under a government scheme in 1997 in Mumbai's Antop Hill area, he said.