A 31-year-old man was arrested in Chhattisgarh for cheating two youths of Rs 22.01 lakhs on the pretext of providing them government jobs in Raipur district, police said on Thursday.
Raipur Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal said Siddharth Bangani was a resident of Gobra-Nawapara town.
Complainant Tareshwar Kumar Sahu lodged a cheating case against him on Wednesday.
Bangani took Rs 20 lakhs from Sahu between April 2018 and August 2019 by promising to secure a government job for him. He also gave him a fake joining letter.
Police detained Bangani after he confessed to cheating Sahu. He told the police that he had also taken Rs 2.01 lakhs from a Anurag Das also on the pretext of finding a job for him.