Durgapur, Nov. 14 -- A 38-year-old man from Kerala was arrested for allegedly cheating a Durgapur student of Rs 9.92 lakh by promising her admission to Bradford University in England for Rs 10 lakh.
The accused was traced to Bengaluru by police from the City Centre Police Outpost and brought to Durgapur.
The accused, Anushankar Chalbana Prabhakaran, a resident of Ernakulam, was produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Durgapur on Friday and remanded to 10 days of police custody.
According to police, the victim, a resident of City Centre, had completed her BSc from Vivekananda Global University in Jaipur, Rajasthan, and wanted to pursue an MSc in Forensic Science. She came in contact with Anushankar through her ...