The Kandivli police have arrested a 45-year-old Versova resident for allegedly duping a senior citizen from Thane of Rs 3 lakh on the pretext of providing his son a job as a pilot. They suspect the man, who runs a job placement agency in Kandivli East, might have cheated others, too.

A former employee of Airports Authority of India, Mohan Indap, 72, was desperately trying to help his son secure a job and approached Chandrahas alias Chandu Ailu Naidu in 2016. Naidu told Indap that he has connections that would help his son get a pilot’s job. He asked the septuagenarian to pay R15 lakh for the job, said the police.