India, Dec. 24 -- Two men in their early twenties have been arrested from Delhi on charges that they conned a Rudrapur resident into giving them Rs.23 lakh to become a distributor for a soft drink company, the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) said on Wednesday.

Senior superintendent of police (STF) Navneet Singh Bhullar said the two suspects have been identified as Ram Kumar (22) of Nawada district and Shubham Kumar (22) of Nalanda district in Bihar.

Bhullar said the victim approached the Cyber Crime Police Station in Rudrapur in November, reporting that he had come into contact with individuals while searching online for opportunities to secure a local distributorship for the Campa Cola brand.

"The impostors allegedly demanded mon...