Odisha Police has arrested two persons, including a Nigerian citizen, from New Delhi for duping a woman of Rs 41 lakh. The two had lured the woman from Puri district of the state to deposit the amount in a number of accounts on different occasions in lieu of valuable gifts like laptops and ornaments, police said. The arrested duo was brought here on transit remand and produced before a Puri court on Monday, said a release issued by the crime branch headquarters.

The accused are Nwabueza Chukwudi Vincet (35), a Nigerian, who was residing in Uttam Nagar area of New Delhi and Piyush Arya (22), also a resident of the national capital. On suspicion that she was being cheated, the woman had
reported the matter at the cyber police station here.

In another incident, a 38-year-old woman working with a consultancy firm here in Maharashtra was allegedly duped of Rs 7.3 lakh by a UK-based man whom she befriended on a matrimonial portal, police said. The complainant, who is separated from her husband and lives with her parents here, told the police that while going through the matrimonial site some months back, she befriended the accused, identified as Donald William (23), who claimed to be from Belgravia in London.