Kathmandu, June 13 (PTI) 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.

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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.

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They have been detained for seven days with permission from Kashki District Court to conduct further investigation into the matter.

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