COIMBATORE: Three people, two of them women, were arrested on Saturday for duping more than 40 people of Rs 20lakh by promising them flats in the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board’s housing unit at Vellalore.Gayathri, wife of Kunjumon of Postal Colony at Perur Chettipalayam , M Jayakumar and his wife J Suguna of Vincent Road were arrested based on a complaint lodged by a 52-year-old fisherman.In his compliant, V Shanmugam, of Kottaimedu, said Jayakumar and Suguna had approached him in July 2014, saying they had rapport with politicians and bureaucrats and could get flats for him. “They demanded Rs 60,000 for each flat allotment and asked him to pay Rs 30,000 per flat as advance,” a police officer said.The couple also introduced Shanmugam to Kunjumon, Gayathri and Thirumalai, who was said to be a district collectorate official. Believing them, he paid Rs 73,000 as advance for two flats. When the board allotted flats to the beneficiaries, Shanmugam realized that he was cheated and approached crime branch police inspector Maheswaran, who said he had received more than 40 complaints against the five.

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