A father and his two sons in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao hatched a plan to trick people by unearthing “ancient idols of Ganesh-Lakshmi” from their fields but ended up in jail after a delivery boy approached the police with the receipt for the delivery of an idol.
According to the police, the incident took place in Mehmoodpur village under Aswain Police Station where Ashok Rairaj, a father, and his sons Ravi and Vijay, purchased idols of Hindu deities from an online company last week. They then began telling villagers that gods came to them in their dreams and told them where idols were buried in fields.
“As many in the village accepted their story, the father and sons decided to dig their fields and the idols were found, as planned. The villagers started worshipping them and the family insisted that they would build a temple at the spot,” Pankaj Kumar Singh, Circle Officer, Bangarmau area, told The Hindu.
