A 30-year-old startup entrepreneur was arrested in Bengaluru on Friday for allegedly cheating at least eight persons and business firms of over Rs 64 lakh. Oindrila Dasgupta of Delhi, co-founder of Eat.Shop.Love (ESL) and a resident of CV Raman Nagar, east Bengaluru for some years before she moved to New Delhi recently, allegedly used her husband's bank account in one case.The fraud came to light when police were investigating a complaint filed against Oindrila by her husband Shayak Sen, a private company employee and resident of Sarjapur, southeast Bengaluru.ESL, launched in July 2014, was an online fashion store and had raised Rs 22 crore in March this year from a UK-based investor. It was later purchased by a Tata Group online venture. Oindrila who hails from Jamshedpur, did a media studies course in Bengaluru and a course in social media marketing at Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru. She is a mother of two kids.Police said Oindrila duped at least seven persons in the past seven months. “We're verifying if more people were cheated,“ a police officer said.N Satheesh Kumar, joint commissioner of police (crime), said cybercrime police of the Central Crime Branch summoned Oindrila for questioning on Thursday in connection with a case filed by Shayak Sen who alleged that she had misused his bank account details to collect lakhs of rupees from several people.The fraud came to light when police were probing a complaint filed by her husband Shayak Sen. Shayak alleged she got them to deposit money into his account and later transferred it to her account without informing him. A probe revealed Oindrila had cheated at least seven people, some of whom had filed police complaints in March. Some had accused Shayak of colluding with his wife, but police said their probe revealed he had no role.“The initial probe confirmed she had committed the offence and hence we arrested her and produced her before the court on Friday. The court remanded her in judicial custody,“ Satheesh Kumar said.Police didn't arrest Oindrila earlier in the belief that the allegations could be business misunderstandings and could be resolved soon. After questioning her, police summoned victims of her fraud and recorded statements.Ashok Kinha, Whitefield resident and owner of a business firm, said Oindrila approached him, posing as the owner of a startup this March.She claimed she had sold her firm for Rs 36 crore and planned to invest Rs 20 crore in Kinha's business venture. Kinha readily agreed to take Oindrila as a business partner and she issued him a post-dated cheque for Rs 4.3 crore as initial investment.Oindrila also sought Rs 58 lakh from Kinha for emergency medical expenses for her husband, who she said was suffering from cancer.Kantharaju, a 52-year-old employee of a travel agency in Ulsoor, Bengaluru, filed a cheating complaint against Oindrila in July this year, stating that she had duped his firm by purchasing domestic flight tickets worth Rs 1.45 lakh and not paid for them. He said Oindrila bought eight flight tickets to Delhi on the next available flight as a relative there had passed away. Kanthraju gave the tickets to Oindrila, who said she would pay the amount online. She allegedly showed Kantharaju fake online transaction details of the money transfer and left the city.In another case, Oindrila allegedly borrowed Rs 64,000 from Tia Raina, a friend and employee with a private firm, citing an emergency on April 17 and refused to repay the money. She allegedly borrowed Rs 2.5 lakh from Bharati TS, a Bharatinagar resident, saying her daughter wasn't well and did not repay this too.Police said Oindrila also cheated a star hotel in Faridabad by not paying up after staying there for a week in July.Sangeetha Cherian, a Koramangala resident and travel agency entrepreneur, told police that Oindrila had bought air tickets worth Rs 1.63 lakh from her in July, but not paid her. Film actor Amit Bhargav, a resident of Jayanagar, alleged that Oindrila had got his wife, Sriranjini, to clear her hotel bills in September.