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Key Highlights
- Police have arrested two fraudsters for allegedly cheating a duo of Rs 78.8 lakh after promising huge returns in the rice-pulling business in the state capital recently
- The accused have been identified Vignesh BA (37), a resident of Nagarabhavi, and Nagaraj C (45), a resident of Mulbagal in Kolar district
Bengaluru: Police have arrested two fraudsters for allegedly cheating a duo of Rs 78.8 lakh after promising huge returns in the rice-pulling business in the state capital recently.
The accused have been identified Vignesh BA (37), a resident of Nagarabhavi, and Nagaraj C (45), a resident of Mulbagal in Kolar district. Two other suspects in the case are still absconding, reported the Times of India.
Police said that the victim, Neethan Raj, a resident of Basavanagudi, registered a police complaint stating that the conmen had approached him and his friend, Gopi Karthik, to invest money in their business of a hand-sized vessel that had “thunderbolt strike and isotope radiation”. The fraudsters made the victims believe that they could sell the vessel for Rs 100 crore to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or…
