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Quite unusual happened in the Indian city of Bagheish the crime. At least that’s what law enforcement thinks. authorities, although those arrested claim to have done nothing unlawful. According to the largest Indian information Press Trust of India, four men, including police driver were detained while trying to sell the alleged lamp with a genie capable of fulfilling the wishes of his the owner.
A certain Tapas Roy Chowdhury recently received a call from his friend, who said he found a lamp for sale with imprisoned in her genie, however, it was necessary to pay for it 16 thousand dollars. Excited by such an opportunity, Tapas told this to another friend of his, named Basudb Kund. Chowdhury and Kundu scraped together the required amount (including a few credits) and headed for a meeting at a local hotel. When they met with four sellers, they showed buyers an old metal oil lamp in which supposedly a mystical wish-seeker huddled.
Chowdhury, however, soon suspected that sellers were arriving illogical, trying to exchange an old vessel for money. Why do they asked, it took 16 thousand when they could ask genie about a million or even a billion dollars? Between sellers and failed buyers there was a serious brawl in room, which is why hotel staff called the police. Of the owners lamps arrested for fraud. However, the guards the law failed to understand one strange detail in what happened. The thing is that old oil lamp, even without the almighty genie in It turned out to be very valuable, and its cost, according to conservative estimates, exceeds 22 thousand dollars, not to mention that on a solid international auction, this figure can grow to several hundred thousand It turns out that the “scammers” cheated not only gullible buyers in the person of Chowdhury and Kundu, but also themselves …
