Chhattisgarh Police have arrested a 46-year-old man for cheating 11 youths of Rs 31.50 lakhs on the pretext of providing them government jobs in Raipur, it was announced on Saturday.
Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Yadav identified him as Manish Soni, a resident of New Shanti Nagar.
Complainant Phulchand Sahu and others lodged a cheating case against him last year. Soni was arrested from Kachnau area.
He took Rs 31.50 lakh from Ritesh Thakur, Anjali Ruparela, Sanjay Yadav, Jitendra Kumar, Mohsin Qureshi, Hemlata Verma, Vikesh Sahu, Manish Verma, Anubhav Sharma, Phulchand Sahu and Ramfekar between February 2016 and April 2016 by fooling and promised to secure government jobs for them. He then absconded.