Hyderabad, March 26: Three persons were arrested by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) here for allegedly cheating jobseekers to the tune of lakhs of rupees by promising them lucrative jobs, police said today.
K Venugopal, after completing his MCA, floated ‘Skill Bank Consultancy’ and along with his wife and three others collected resumes of jobseekers and sent fake offer letters as if they were issued from reputed companies by collecting amounts ranging to Rs 1-1.5 lakh per candidate, a senior CID officer said.
Following a complaint by one such jobseeker, who had paid Rs 1.5 lakh after being promised a job in an IT firm, Venugopal and his associates Veena and Riyaz were arrested on Tuesday and were sent in judicial remand by a local court, the officer said.
-PTI