A 25-year old married woman was duped to the tune of Rs 50,000 by an exorcist in the name of providing relief from evil eye at Burhakheda under Bairagarh police station area on Tuesday.
According to the police on Tuesday a miscreant who posed as priest cheated the victim lalita Vishwakarma of her gold and silver jewelry and escaped the spot.
A complaint was lodged with the Bairagarh police station and the victim claimed that a man posing as priest came to her house and asked for alms and when she went for giving alms the miscreant told her that there is evil eye on her house and would require to offer prayer and asked to bring gold and silver jewelry along with wheat flour and made dough and mixed the jewelry and returned the dough to the victim and instructed her to open the dough after his leaving the house. Assured by the miscreant’s prayer the victim checked the dough after he left the place and later when she checked the dough jewelry were missing.
She tried to search the miscreant but failed to find him and later lodged complaint with police. Based on the complaint the police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
Police said the victim has been provided with the photographs of the criminals from the record but the identification of the miscreant was not established. The neighbours and shopkeepers of the area would be questioned which could help in establishing of the identity of the miscreant.