Seven persons, including two employees of Ministry of Rural Development, were arrested for allegedly cheating youths on the pretext of providing them jobs in the state-owned ONGC, police said Tuesday. The accused were identified as Jagdish Raj (58), Sandeep Kumar (31), Wasim (28), Ankit Gupta (32), Vishal Goel (27), Suman Saurabh (32) and Kishore Kunal (32), they said. Based on a complaint filed by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), a case was registered, police said.

During investigation, it surfaced that the victims received emails from official email account of ONGC and were interviewed at Krishi Bhawan, said Rajiv Ranjan, Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) The victims were introduced to a man named Randhir Singh who took Rs 22 lakhs from them for providing jobs in ONGC, he said. Police kept a tab on cab bookings, hotel reservations and online shopping of the accused done using their mobile phones.