'The wife of one of these men was also involved in the fraud. He said the men were arrested on Thursday and were remanded in custody ahead of charges being filed. 'The cheats had struck a deal for much more but the doctor had paid about seven million rupees ($93,000),' Amit Rai, a senior officer told AFP. Laeek Khan approached police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh after he realised the lamp did not have any magical powers, as described in the popular folk tale about Aladdin and his wish-granting genie that appears when it is rubbed. Two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an 'Aladdin's lamp' for $93,000 - and even conjured up a fake genie - have been arrested in India, an official said Sunday.
