Defendant identified as Vivek Pathak was found fooling job seekers in the 6-mile area of Guwahati.
In particular, Vivek Pathak tricked the unemployed youth of engineering into collecting Rs. Rs 12,000 with the excuse of providing a job.
According to police sources, scammers were found fooling people with the excuse of offering jobs at Oil India Limited in Duliajan. Vivek Pathak told the victims that he would get a civil engineering job at a Duliajan-based OIL and later run away with money.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, a fraudulent job provider was captured by a family of unemployed youth while he was trying to trick a girl through a job interview.
The family fought him and shouted for help. Upon hearing them, the locals rushed to the spot and slammed him into black and blue.
Later, a Dispur police officer rescued him and detained him.