Thomas (Special correspondent)
The Sampigehalli police on Monday arrested a 34-year-old realtor from Pune who posing as HR manager cheated job aspiring techies offering positions at IBM and escaped after collecting money from them.
The accused has been identified as,Sanjeev Gangaram Ghurkha Chinchwad,from Pune was caught based on a complaint from the IBM company after four of the victims walked into the IBM office at Manyata tech park with fake job offer letters last week.
Based on the complaint, the Sampigehalli police swung into action and track down Sanjeev and arrested him.
Senior officer told reporters,an Initial probe revealed that the accused is B com graduate and worked in a call centre which offered support to IBM.
Later accused started real estate business and wanted money to invest.He chalked out a plan to cheat people and targeted gullible job aspirants online .
Claiming as HR Manager,Sanjeev interviewed many people and offered them different roles.He took money ranging from 80,000 to Rs 25,000 on the pretext of security deposits for issuing the laptops at the time of joining the company.
The accused had opened at least 8 bank accounts to ask the victims to deposit money online.Anup A Shetty,DCP northeast,said media persons.It is suspected that he had cheated as many as 40 persons since the last few months and investigations are on to ascertain his criminal background, Mr.Shetty,said to reporters.
