Yadadri-Bhongir: Gang selling fake gold busted, three arrested

The gang members were cheating gullible people offering gold at low prices saying they had found a huge cache of gold while demolishing their old house

Yadadri-Bhongir: A three-member inter-State attention diversion gang including a woman was arrested on Sunday for cheating people offering gold at low prices, by Bhongir police at Thukkaram crossroads on Sunday and seized Rs 6 lakhs from their possession. The gang members were cheating gullible people offering gold at low prices saying they had found a huge cache of gold while demolishing their old house.

The arrested were identified as Uppala Nagaraju(45) and Ganji Pulla Rao(37), who were natives of Gongulapadu village of Sathenapally mandal, and Thimmihetti Lakshmi(38), native of Hanumathpet of Piduguralla mandal in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh State.

Presenting the gang before the media, Deputy Commissioner of Police P Yadagiri said that a woman Nakkala Laxmi was lodged complaint with Bhongir police on December 17, 2020, saying that an unknown woman has came to her vegetable shop in the town and offered gold at low price saying that she go 40 tulas of gold bars while demolishing her old house and wanted to sell it. For the purpose of test, the woman of the gang gave a small piece of gold to her to instill confidence in the buyer. Believing her after the testing of gold piece, she gave Rs 5.5 lakh to the unknown woman after receiving two gold bars total weighing 40 tulas. But, she came to know she was cheated after checking the bars with the gold smiths that the they were gold coated ones and she was cheated by unidentified woman.

Based on the complaint, Bhongir town police took up the investigation and arrested the gang members at Thukkaram crossroads on the credible information. During the interrogation, the gang members confessed that they have committed such offences in the limits of Bhongir town, Nalgonda Town-II and Chityal police stations in erstwhile Nalgonda district.

The Police asked the people not to believe if any persons approached them offering gold at low prices on any pretext.

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