Thane: A 40-year-old man has been booked for allegedly duping 12 people of Rs 23.7 lakh on the
pretext of providing them jobs here in Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.
The accused, identified as Naresh alias Bandya Surve, told a female job aspirant residing in his neighbourhood in Thane's Wagle Estate area that he was working in the state secretariat and promised that he could arrange a job for her, Thane police spokesperson Sukhada Narkar said.
For this, he demanded Rs 2.1 lakh from the woman, who claimed to have paid it in installments, she said.
The woman later informed other job aspirants about the employment "prospects". The aspirants then approached the accused and paid him money, the official said.
The accused collected Rs 23.7 lakh from around 12 people, Narkar said, adding that he later told the victims that he had got transferred to the district collectorate.
However, when the victims did not get jobs and approached the collectorate to enquire about him, they were
informed by authorities that no such person was employed there.
The first victim subsequently filed a complaint at the Shree Nagar police station on Wednesday evening.
A case was registered and a probe is on although arrests are yet to be made.
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