India, May 17 -- Three Nigerian nationals were arrested from Noida, Uttar Pradesh for allegedly duping people of their money after befriending them through dating applications and social media platforms while posing as women from western countries, police said on Saturday.

Police said they were arrested on Thursday and taken into one-day police remand for questioning. They were sent to judicial custody on Saturday after being produced before a city court.

Police said two of them reached India on student visas in 2017 and 2018 and continued to stay illegally after their visas expired. The third accused had illegally entered India through Bangladesh border in 2022.

Police recovered at least 19 phones, laptop and 18 Indian and internation...