Delhi Police has arrested two men from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar for allegedly cheating a rice trader of Rs 20 lakh by posing as representatives of a company selling agricultural products, police said Saturday.

Two of the accused, identified as Basudev Swain (35), a resident of Lucknow, and Deepak Kumar (40), a resident of Varanasi, were apprehended Thursday, they said.

According to the police, the complainant, who runs a rice and food supply business in northwest Delhi, alleged that Swain and Kumar, along with a co-accused Amit Kumar Singh, approached him posing as officials of Smartvalue Ltd.

They claimed the company wanted to purchase rice for testing and future large-scale procurement.

“Trusting their credentials, the complainant supplied rice worth around Rs 20 lakh against proper bill

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