India, July 20 -- Three people were arrested in Delhi for impersonating a team of CBI officials and looting a family in Delhi's Wazirabad, and made the residents there give up gold and silver jewellery, along with around Rs.3 lakh cash.

The incident took place at a house in Lane 9, Wazirabad, where two men and a woman barged in, saying they were CBI officers from Okhla and staged a fake search operation.

Shortly after, the family realised that they had been looted and contacted the police, news agency PTI reported.

The incident is reminiscent of 'Special 26', a 2013 film starring Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher and Manoj Vajpayee in pivotal roles. The film also centres around a team of fake probe agency officers and their elaborate ruse to c...