Representative image of fake jewellery.
Credit: DH Photo
Kathmandu: Two Indians have been arrested in Nepal for cheating people of hundreds of thousands of rupees by providing a yellow metal in the name of gold, police said on Thursday.
Prabha Devi, 71, and Ramnarayan Sulengi, 42, both residents of Uttar Pradesh, were arrested on Wednesday for providing a yellow necklace that looked like gold against the payment of Rs. 400,000 to a local trader, police said.
They were arrested from Lekhnath Municipality while heading towards India in a vehicle shortly after the incident.
The police recovered Rs 3 lakh and 90 thousand cash from their possession.
They have been detained for seven days with permission from Kashki District Court to conduct further investigation into the matter.