PhD Holder Among 5 Held For Duping People Of Rs 7.5 Crore On Pretext Of Providing Jobs

Five people, including one who holds a PhD in human resources, have been arrested from Gurgaon for allegedly duping over 500 people of Rs 7.5 crore on the pretext of providing them jobs in leading multi-national companies, Delhi Police said on Friday.

Five people, including one who holds a PhD in human resources, have been arrested from Gurgaon for allegedly duping over 500 people of Rs 7.5 crore on the pretext of providing them jobs in leading multi-national companies, Delhi Police said on Friday. The main accused, Manoj Hota (44), used to work as a visiting faculty at various universities and colleges for a few years and later set up a college that did not run well and landed him in a huge debt. He is an MBA and has done his PhD in Human Resources from a reputed university. Debt-laden, Hota decided to scam people. He recruited well-qualified persons like Ashish Ranjan (26), Abhishek Kumar (27), who are engineers and could talk fluently in English, to dupe people, police said.