to her friend’s home at night to deliver the life-saving gas.
Only then did she
discover that she had been swindled and the “oxygen cylinder" was actually a fire extinguisher.
Her friend’s father died the next day, leaving Ms Arora distraught at the loss and shocked at being cheated at time when the raging pandemic had forced people to rely on the illegal market for medicines and medical oxygen to save loved ones.
She complained to the police, who said they arrested the men on charges of cheating and endangering public safety and seized five more fire extinguishers that they had planned to sell.