Chhattisgarh Police on Saturday arrested two persons from Rajasthan and brought them here for cheating 98 farmers of Durg, Balod and Bilaspur districts of Rs 5.43 crore in the state on the pretext of fish farming.
Durg Senior Superintendent of Police Badri Narayan Meena identified them as Vinay Sharma and Brijesh Kashyap of Haryana.
Sharma was the Chief Executive Officer while Kashyap was the Manager of a Gurugram-based fish farming company.
On August 28 last year, a farmer, Tarun Chandrakar, lodged a cheating case with the police.
The two men had lured farmers in the name of setting up a pond along with bore and other facilities besides promising a hefty earning of Rs 55,000 to 1.5 lakh per month from fish farming.
They took Rs 5,55,000 each from them as commercial credit amount and disappeared.
Police nabbed them from Bhilwara jail in Rajasthan where they were held in another cheating case.
