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  Metros   Kolkata  02 Sep 2017  Kolkata: Man held for creating fake job portal

Kolkata: Man held for creating fake job portal

PTI
Published : Sep 2, 2017, 9:15 am IST
Updated : Sep 2, 2017, 9:15 am IST

Saikat Hazra, 35, created a website the name of which is very similar to a popular job portal.

Representational Image. (Photo: File/PTI)
 Representational Image. (Photo: File/PTI)

Kolkata: One person was arrested from Salkia in Howrah for allegedly running a fake job portal and duping several persons, police said on Friday.

Saikat Hazra (35) created a website the name of which is very similar to a popular job portal.

He had put up misleading advertisement for job recruitment impersonating as the West Bengal Agro Industries Corporation Limited and cheated people, a senior officer of Kolkata Police said.

The police seized various documents, a hard disk, one mobile number, two SIM cards.

Tags: fake job portal, indian penal code, fraud activity, recruitment scam
Location: India, West Bengal, Calcutta [Kolkata]