Trio arrested for duping people with free laptop promise for poor students

BENGALURU: Three people have been arrested for cheating people by promising free laptops for poor students, while posing as BBMP officials. The arrested are Harsha, Roopesh and Mohan.

The trio used to contact gullible people on phone stating that they are from the BBMP social welfare wing and would promise free laptops to poor students. As application and registration fee, they would take Rs 500 from their victims and cheated several people across the city.

The northeast CEN police arrested the trio and have registered a case.