A director of a recruitment firm in New Delhi, has been arrested by the East region cyber police for allegedly duping a city based woman of INR 2.6 million (USD 34,692) on the pretext of offering her a high salaried job, reports the Free Press Journal. The accused Shailesh Bharati, 29, who was arrested from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh has been suspected of running a fake recruitment firm and has been duping people similarly. The police have found over INR 10 million (USD 133,433) that had been deposited in his bank account and suspected it to be generated from similar fraud. Two more company directors who are also accused in the case are at large. The alleged fraud took place between September 2018 till August 2020 however the offence was registered in July this year when the complainant, Vidya Raju, approached the police.

The police then followed the money trail in which Raju was made to deposit money and, based on technical analysis, held Bharati, from Lucknow. According to the police, Bharati was running a placement agency in Haryana along with two others. They used to collect job seekers information from job portals, after studying their profile they used to target individual job seekers and lured them by promising them jobs in reputed companies as per their profiles.