Woman arrested on fraud charge

A woman wanted in a fraud case was arrested from New Delhi and brought here today, police said.

Kiran Kumari Bhanot, a resident of Gandhwan road, Phagwara was arrested by Ludhiana police from New Delhi when she was trying to escape from India, Investigating Officer Assistant Sub-Inspector Balwinder Singh Rai said.

She was trying to escape abroad when the airport authorities informed the Ludhiana police, who arrested her, he said.

A case was lodged against her by Gurpreet Singh Ghag, a resident of Narangshahpur village, in 2014, he said.

The officer said that Bhanot had sold a piece of land to Ghag at cost of Rs 45 lakh, however, she later fraudulently got a bank loan against the same land she had sold to him by showing it as her property, he added.