Beware Of The Genie In The Lamp,

that was what London trained doctor Dr Laeek Khan, 

 a physician from the Khairnagar area, in Meerut city in India’s Uttar Pradesh, was told when he paid for the magic lamp, photograph Facebook, it started like this, one day, while at Sameena’s home, the doctor met a self-described ‘tantrik’ who boasted about his magical powers, and later promised to make Khan a billionaire. The tantrik, named Islamuddin, soon introduced the doctor to his partner, Anees, and the two offered to sell him a real-life wish-granting Aladdin Ka Chirag (Aladdin’s Lamp), the doctor agreed, after making multiple payments, the doctor asked to take Aladdin’s lamp home with him, but the two men kept telling him that it was a bad idea, and that simply touching it would cause bad things to happen to him. After being rejected several times, Laeek Khan finally realized he was being conned and approached the Meerut Superintendent of Police to have the two conmen arrested, Islamuddin and his friend Anees were both apprehended by police, and the “magical” lamp retrieved. Sadly, police couldn’t convince the jinn to come out… They are now searching for Sameena, who, it turns out, was Islamuddin’s wife, so what is the going rate for a genie in a bottle? well this one went for 2.5 core, which is? wait for it, £286,642.00 at todays rate $376,853.47, I never realised magic was so expensive! as it happens I travelled to one Pradesh in 2007 I believe it was, and  mentioned it in a post in 2009, when Neil, Anil and myself were looking for unusual fish in India, like the one in this post, back to the genie, for the full story have a look here.