Exploiting the greed of people to make easy money by buying US dollars at cheap prices, a gang of cheats duped them by passing off newspaper cuttings as dollars and then getting the victim raided by fake Crime Branch officers so that the genuineness of the currency was not verified.

Two accused persons identified as Mohd. Yunush and Imran Khan, both residents of West Bengal, were arrested and Rs 1.70 lakh in cash, one bundle of newspapers with 20 US dollars and one scooty used in the crime were recovered.