Dehradun police have arrested five persons from Premnagar in the city on the charge of duping one on the pretext of giving him an antique idol of lord Shiva for Rs four crore.
A Premnagar police station officer Mukesh Tyagi said that the accused have been identified as Suraj Prakash, Sachin and Sumit, all natives of Haryana aside from Mumtaz and Balwan, both natives of Saharanpur.
As per the complainant, he was lured into paying Rs 50,000 to the accused after they had informed him that the actual price of the idol was of Rs 25 crore.