Dehradun police have arrested three persons allegedly involved in swindling activities in the state capital. The police have recovered spurious gold jewelleries and cash Rs 10, 000 from their possession. The accused have been identified as Man Singh, his wife Rajjo Devi and his son Manoj Kumar, natives of Shamli (Uttar Pradesh).
Mohit Panwar, resident of Sanjay Colony, Patelnagar has registered a complaint at Patelnagar police station on Friday. In his written complaint, Panwar stated that the three persons including a woman reached outside his house and told him that they received gold jewelleries weighed 2.5 kg after digging their land. They wish to sell it at lower price. They said that they would give him all 2.5 kg weighed gold jewelleries of RS 2.5 lakh only. They sought Rs 10, 000 in advance for the gold jewelleries and told Panwar to go at jewellery shop to check the correctness of gold jewelleries.
Panwar went at jewellery shop wherein shopkeeper told him jewelleries as spurious. All three persons were escaped when Panwar reached his house. Acting on the complaint, a case under appropriate section 420 of IPC was registered against the action. Team was formed at police station level and team members started investigation. Finally the team members arrested the accused from Patelnagar area and recovered spurious gold items and cash Rs 10, 000 from their possession. The accused are learnt to have admitted their offenses and said that they had committed such swindling at other places like Delhi, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Jaipur and Dehradun and other places in the past, Patelnagar police officer informed.