India, April 17 -- Four members of an interstate gang were arrested for duping people by selling them fake gold coins, police said on Thursday.

Police identified the suspects as Solanki Prabhubhai Gulshanbhai alias Kalpesh, 45, Manish Kamlesh Shah, 32, and Ishwar Marwadi, 33, all residents of Vadodara in Gujarat and Pankaj Sharma, 31, of Nangloi, Delhi.

Police said the arrests come after they duped a 50-year-old businessman from Sushant Lok-I of Rs.2.49 crore cash and 583 grams of gold worth Rs.84 lakh on March 2. They gave the victim five kilograms of gold-plated brass coins by terming them "antique gold coins" recovered from fields during an excavation in Madhya Pradesh.

The victim filed a complaint on April 1 after he realized that ...