A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly cheating several people on the pretext of providing government jobs in the DMRC, police said on Saturday.
The accused has been identified as Pawan Bhardwaj, a resident of Goyala Dairy, they said.
A man had on November 7, 2022, lodged a complaint saying he was cheated of Rs 3,20,000 by a person, who introduced himself as Rohit and said he was an HR manager in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, a senior police officer said.
According to the police, the man took money from the complainant in a piecemeal fashion, and later switched off his phone. By the end of the scam, the complainant had lost Rs 3,20,000.
During investigation, police located the accused to Goyala Dairy and nabbed him from Kutub Vihar there, the officer said.