Arera Hills police have nabbed a 3 member gang including a woman, gang would dupe victims using fake jewelry and recovered 4 silver coins, three gold pearls and gold polished fake jewelry used in cheating.
After the gang members committed fraud police were informed and acting swiftly the accused were nabbed.
From the accused four silver coins weighing about 40 grams and 03 gold pearls and fake gold thread weighing about 2 kg, total worth Rs 20,000.
On Thursday victim Abdul Hakim Khan reported that near Arera Hills near Airtel Tirahe 3 unknown persons, (02 men and 01 women) tried to cheat fake jewelry by pretending to be real jewelry and based on the complaint a case under section 419 and 511 of the IPC was registered.
During the investigation of the case, the accused were trapped and nabbed.
The accused were identified as Dharmendra Rai alias Dharma Solanki(44) of Kanpur Uttar Pradesh, Shiva Silavat of Gandhi Nagar and Kisni Devi of Nainital Uttarakhand.
During the investigation, it was found that the gang had made many people victims of its fraud. The gang used to show victims gold to win their trust and collect huge amounts of money from them. Later, they sold them fake gold.
Police suspect that several victims have been duped by the gang and would be investigated.