India, May 17 -- Two doctors who own a hospital in Gurugram were cheated of Rs.35 lakh by two men under the pretext of getting them a Rs.3 crore loan from a bank to expand their hospital, police said on Thursday, adding that the suspects have been arrested.

Police said that Dr Himanshu Gupta and Dr Vaibhav Bhola jointly own a multispecialty hospital on the Old Delhi-Gurugram Road in Sector 23A, and were trying to arrange funds at low interest rates to expand it. A man approached them in December 2023 promising that he and his associate in Zirakpur, Punjab, could help in securing loans from foreign banks.

The suspects sought Rs.35 lakh from the doctors on the condition that they would return it and charge a 10% commission on the loan amo...