INDORE: A couple was duped of Rs 10 lakh by a group of four people in a chit-fund fraud in Khajrana area, the police said on Sunday.
Officials said that the victim, Seema and her husband Lakshman Solanki, in a complaint to the police alleged that they came in contact of the accused, identified as Anil Birla, Hariyas alias Harsh, and Murlidhar Birla - all residents of Bhilwara (Rajasthan) along with Virendra Tiwari in the year 2020, through one of their relatives, who claimed that they run a chit-fund company in Rajasthan and he had also invested money in the same firm, run by accused.