India, Jan. 19 -- A 35-year-old man, a school dropout, has been arrested in Ahmedabad on charges that he is part of a gang that conned senior citizens into paying lakhs of rupees for a fake treatment to improve their mobility, police said on Monday

The gang members, who posed as doctors and physiotherapists, convinced senior citizens with mobility problems that they were suffering due to the presence of "black blood" in their bodies. They convinced them that it was possible to separate and extract the toxic blood cells under a special treatment that they could provide. Their charges were Rs.7,000 for each drop of the so-called "black blood" removed from their body.

Some people fell for the con.

The fraud came to light after the bank ma...