Hyderabad, April 17 -- The Madhuranagar police have arrested three individuals, one from Karnataka and two from Nagpur, for scamming people by selling fake ayurvedic medicines. The officials recovered the medicines from the accused, and they have confessed to 14 cases of extorting Rs 19 lakh.

The accused established three or four ayurvedic medical stores around Hyderabad, and they went to isolated places like malls, hospitals, massage centres, and other crowded places and identified the sick patients suffering from cancer, paralysis, skin disease, Alzheimer's, knee pains, and other diseases.

The accused explained to the victims that the disease was curable, and a relative with the same problem was cured by taking Ayurvedic medicines fro...