Job consultant held for cheating Hyd youth by promising IT job

A Bengaluru-based job consultant has been arrested for allegedly cheating a local youth of over Rs 1 lakh by promising him a job in a noted software firm, police said today.

Police are also looking for two of his aides, one of them a former employee of Infosys who was also allegedly involved in cheating job aspirants.

Cyber Crime Team of Rachakonda Commissionerate arrested Ravi Kumar from his residence in Bengaluru last night and brought him to the city, Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat said.

According to police, an engineering graduate had lodged a complaint with them stating that he found an advertisement on a social networking site which mentioned of several jobs in reputed software companies including Infosys, following which he contacted one Suresh G on a contact number.
 

"Suresh promised the victim of providing him a job in Infosys and asked him to deposit Rs 1 lakh in the bank account given by him. Believing his version, the victim deposited the amount and got an appointment letter through an email in the name of one Jagadish stating it to be from HR Manager of Infosys," the CP said in a release.

However, the victim became suspicious as Suresh demanded another Rs 85,000 from him, and lodged a complaint with police on October 13.

Suresh was booked under various sections of IPC and IT Act.

Subsequently, a police team went to Infosys office at Electronic City in Bengaluru and found that the email ID through which Jagadish had sent the mail (to the victim), was already terminated long back.

On a tip-off, Ravi was arrested and he confessed that he, Jagadish and Suresh had been cheating job seekers by promising jobs in IT firms, the senior police officer said.

The investigation also revealed that the former employee of Infosys (Jagadish) had conducted mock interviews of 86 job-seekers claiming himself to be the HR Manager, without the knowledge of the Infosys management, police said, adding that Suresh and Jagadish are absconding.