India, March 7 -- The Ghaziabad police on Thursday arrested three persons, including two transgenders, for allegedly hatching a conspiracy and chopping off and taking away the genitals of a 45-year-old man, who allegedly gave them the go-ahead as he wanted to become a guru of transgenders in the area, Wave City police said.

The incident happened on the intervening night of March 2 and 3. Sanjay Yadav was asleep in his house in Bamheta village (near National Highway 9) when several persons entered the house and cut off Yadav's genitals and took it away, said an FIR filed on a complaint by Yadav's son.

The police in this connection registered an FIR under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 109(1) (attempt to murder), 118(2) (voluntarily cau...