India, Oct. 4 -- A Kandivali senior citizen was allegedly conned out of Rs.31 lakh after two men promised him everything from X-ray goggles that could spot buried gold to a ritual that would supposedly make cash rain from the sky, police said. The accused, Bhavarlal Paliwal and Gaurishankar Sharma, were arrested by the Kandivali police and produced before a court on Sunday.

The alleged fraud began in 2016, when Paliwal introduced the complainant to Sharma and claimed he had a pair of glasses that could see through the ground. He told the senior citizen that Rs.3 lakh was needed to buy the glasses and that they could later be sold at a profit, a portion of which would be shared with the complainant.

The complainant allegedly sent the mon...