The Malabar Hill police arrested film financier Bharat Shah on Thursday, in connection with an old cheating case registered against him by a Silvassa court.

The case against Bharat Shah, who also happens to be a leading diamond merchant, had been lodged nine years back in 2000, against a Silvassa-based company Vishal Chairs of which Shah was a director.

The Malabar Hill police produced Shah in the Girgaum metropolitan court, which remanded Shah to police custody till Friday.