Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday arrested a 48-year-old man for cheating a youth of Rs 12 lakhs in Kabirdham district on the pretext of providing him a job in the Public Works Department (PWD) in 2015.
Kabirdham Additional Superintendent of Police Manisha Thakur Rawate identified him as Jaleshwar Prasad Tandon of Kosamtara village in Mungeli district.
Complainant Rajendra Sahu (28) of Kawardha district lodged a cheating case with the police following which Tandon was arrested.
Tandon told the police he met Sahu in Kabirdham in September 2015 and took the money from him by promising a post of civil engineer in PWD claiming he had contacts with politicians. A court sent him to jail.