Chhattisgarh Police on Saturday arrested two accomplices of a runaway bride from Madhya Pradesh and brought them here for cheating an elderly man of Rs 15 lakh in 2017, police said. The runaway bride, Asha Sharma (48), had got married and then she cheated the victim. Bilaspur Senior Superintendent of Police Parul Mathur identified the arrested as Rahul Sharma alias Rahul Singh alias Lalit Singh (28) and Ashish Sharma alias Ashish Singh (27), both from Madhya Pradesh. The accused are the sons of Asha Sharma. Complainant Munshi Lal Pastaria (78) told the police in February 2020 that he met Asha Sharma in 2016 on a matrimonial site. They wed in December 2016 at a mass marriage ceremony in Madhya Pradesh and started living together in Bilaspur. Sharma was in constant touch with both the men. One day in 2017, she fled with Rs 13.69 lakh in cash as well gold and silver ornaments valued at Rs 65,000 and a car worth Rs 1 lakh. During investigation, police learnt that Asha Sharma was arrested by Rajasthan Police in a cheating case and her sons were in Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh.Police nabbed them and they confessed their involvement in cheating the elderly man in Bilaspur. They told police they have cheated six persons in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.