coimbatore the city crime branch police on friday arrested a 39yearold woman for duping around 15 people of 15 crore by getting their luxury cars on the pretext of rental business and pledging them without their knowledge to lead a posh lifeaccording to an official source a team led by city crime branch police inspector p renugadevi nabbed yasodadevi 39 wife of venkatesh kanna of swathika avenue at chinna mettupalayam near saravanampatti while she was negotiating a property deal worth 1 crore in the citypolice have recovered seven cars from her we are trying to recover another 13 cars from her we have seized seven mobile phones and two laptops from her an investigation officer told toithe officer said they caught her based on a complaint that k ranganathan 42 of vesanapatti village near udumalpet in tirupur district lodged with them in february this yearhe contacted yasodadevi in 2020 after seeing an advertisement inviting car owners to attach their new model cars to anu adityaa transport and logistics private limited for monthly rent he then met her in person at her rental house on thudiyalur road and signed an agreement to provide his car for rental business from october 1 2020 to october 1 2021 for a monthly payout of 22000 the officer saidranganathan the officer said was paid the rental amount for two months when he didnt get the amount in the third month ranganathan tried to contact yasodadevi but her mobile phone was switched off when he went to her rental house he found that she had vacated the placeranganathan the officer said started collecting more information about yasodadevi and came to know she had cheated narenkumar of velampalayam in tirupur muthukumar of sundakkampalayam near udumalpet and hariharan of chennimalai in tirupur district in a similar fashionbased on his complaint we registered a case against yasodadevi under sections 406 and 420 of the indian penal code preliminary investigation revealed that the cars she had taken on rent were pledged to lawyers and politicians for 3 lakh to 5 lakh the officer saidyasodadevi was remanded in judicial custody on friday