“Gradually they started telling me about a baba whom they claimed also visited their home,” Khan was quoted as saying in his complaint. Two men have been arrested in western Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut after they allegedly cheated a city doctor of Rs 31 lakh by selling him “Aladdin’s lamp” – the magical artifact from the popular Middle Eastern folk tale that brings forth a wish-granting genie when it is rubbed. He visited the supposed patient at her house for over a month.
He told the police that he first met the two men while treating a woman he thought was their mother. The doctor filed a complaint with local police in Meerut, in western Uttar Pradesh, on October 25.
