Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday arrested three persons, including a woman, for cheating more than 15 people of Rs 17.88 lakh by promising them higher returns through recurring deposits in banks in Bemetara district.
Those arrested were Omprakash Tamrakar (34) and his accomplices Mukesh Tamrakar (32) and Pooja Tamkrakar (30), all from Devkar town, Bemetara Superintendent of Police Dharmendra Singh said.
One of the complainants, Hemant Sahu (29) of Khisora village, lodged a cheating case against them a few days ago.
Sahu had opened a savings bank account through Tamrakar’s Choice Centre in Devkar.
Tamrakar lured him with higher returns in recurring deposits. Similarly, they took money from 14 others.
They took their bank pass books so that he could deposit their money in their accounts but did not do so.
The police nabbed them and they confessed their crime.
The police seized 1,000 blank bank passbooks, 250 ATM cards, three laptops, a desktop, two printers, three biometric machines, two scanners, a thermal printer and documents related to 41 investors.