Noida techie duped on pretext of inheriting £12.5 mn of NRI with same 'gotra'

The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three persons for allegedly duping a Noida-based software engineer of Rs 60 lakh on the pretext of making him the heir to the fortune of a fictitious London-based NRI.

A Noida-based software engineer was duped of Rs 60 lakh by a few conmen on the pretext of making him the heir to the fortune of a fictitious London-based NRI having the same gotra as him. The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three persons in the case. According to the police, Tarun Varshney received an e-mail in January 2019 signed in the name of 'Advocate Bruise Eddie'. "The engineer was informed of the death of an Indian-origin man Braj Varshney in a car crash in London in 2015. It was claimed that the deceased had 12.5 million pound and the engineer was chosen as his nominee due to their matching 'gotras' (family gene pool)," PTI quoted the police as saying.