A case has been registered against three persons for allegedly duping a woman from Maharashtra's Thane city of Rs 16.35 lakh on the pretext of securing admission for her daughter in a prestigious engineering college, police said on Monday.

Based on a complaint, the Kapurbawdi police on April 2 registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the accused, Tashin Khan (40), Saif Khan (42), and a woman identified as Shruti, an official said, the PTI reported.