1 held for duping people on pretext of job

NEW DELHI: A cheat has been arrested by Delhi Police who duped people on the pretext of providing job. Gautam Kashyap, 24 years, has been arrested by South East Delhi Police.

On October 2018, a 34-year-old call centre employee reported at District Cyber Cell against a gang of cheats who fraudulently induced him to transfer money on the pretext of job offer. Complainant reported that in the year 2016, while he was working in a call centre, he enrolled for a job change in online job portals. Thereafter, he received a call from a person, representing himself from a leading online job portal. Accused persons used to make calls to victim and asked him to transfer money as facilitation fees through Paytm. In the past 28 months, victim has been cheated of Rs 9.5 lakh by the accused persons.

During the investigation, it was revealed that the funds were received by the accused person in different Paytm wallets. After technical inputs, on March 14, a raid was conducted at Burari and alleged Gautam Kashyap was

apprehended.