Chhattisgarh Police on Wednesday arrested nine persons for cheating two youths in Balodabazar-Bhatapara district on the pretext of providing them government jobs.
They were taken into custody from separate places in the state.
Balodabazar-Bhatapara Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar Jha identified the nine as Ravi Shankar, Amit Singh, Santosh Sahu, Saurabh Chakravarty, Dev Prasad Patre, Chanchal Pal, Amit Shastri, Devanand Sahu and Rajendra Thakur.
Complainant Ramashankar Patel lodged a cheating case with the police in January.
The cheats took Rs 2.50 lakh from Patel between January and March 2021 after promising to secure a job for him in the Indian Railways.
They took Rs 4.15 lakh from a Rupanshu Sahu and promised him a job in the Forest Department.
Based on an analysis of bank accounts and mobile numbers, the police nabbed the mastermind from Raipur city. He confessed to cheating Patel and Sahu and named the others involved in the crime.
They told the police that they had taken money from more than 20 other victims.
The police seized Rs 10.50 lakhs in cash, a desktop, a printer, duplicate seals, mobile phones, bank pass books, cheque books, Aadhar Cards and bogus joining letters from them.