Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday arrested a man, who posed as a civic body officer, and his accomplice for cheating three people of Rs 5.60 lakhs by promising them houses under the Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) here.
Raipur Additional Superintendent of Police (Urban) Tarkeshwar Patel told The Pioneer that they were Rahul Chandrakar (25) and his accomplice Vijay Vora (30) from Raipur city.
They were nabbed following a complaint lodged by victims Mohamamd Irfan, Ashish Chandrakar and Wahida Ali with the police.
Acting on a tip, the two were held from their residences in Labhandih and New Rajendra Nagar area.
They told the police that Vora introduced Chandrakar as an officer in the Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) headquarters.