The Crime Branch on Sunday arrested five persons, who were trying to cheat a person by giving the complainant bogus currency note of one million US dollars besides fake gold plates while demanding Rs 25 lakh in return.
According to Crime Branch officers, the accused had taken Rs 10,000 from the complainant. The arrested accused have been identified as Ganga Prasad resident of Khursipar, Ashok Kumar Bagh, Girdhari Dogri, Antaryami Sona and Varun Soni, hailing from Odisha.
They had told the complainant Sourabh Mishra a resident of Bhilai that they have a one million US dollar currency note and gold plate and that market value of those items was around Rs 6 crore. However they said that they were in urgent need of the money so were ready to sell it for Rs 25 lakh, police said.
Police further informed that Sourabh Mishra while believing on them gave Rs 10,000. However,, later on some friends of Mishra who came to know about deal saw the materials being offered by accused who then realized that the entire plan was hatched to con Mishra.
Mishra then lodged a complaint with Bhatti police station in this connection. The case was then handed over to SCB sleuths who nabbed the accused. The accused during interrogation, confessed of hatching a plan for cheating Mishra, police claimed. Police has registered a case in this connection under Section 420 of Indian Penal Code (IPC).