Chhattisgarh Police on Wednesday arrested two young men from New Delhi and brought them here on charges of cheating an elderly woman of gold ornaments and cash valued at Rs 5.5 lakhs.
Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Yadav told The Pioneer that the two are Gopal Solanki (23) and Rahul Parmar (22), residents of the national capital.
In January, Premlata Agrawal (63) told the police that two persons cheated her of gold ornaments valued at Rs 5 lakh and Rs 5,000 in cash in Shastri Market area in the Gole Bazar police station limits.
Based on analysis of mobile phone records, police nabbed them from separate localities in New Delhi.
The two confessed to the police that they cheated the woman when she was buying vegetables, with one of the accused pretending to be hungry.
Police have recovered two mobile phones from them.