Using extortion in order to secure a government job has landed a 20-year-old college student from Kalyan in jail. The Tulinj police have arrested one Aniket Shelar who tried to extort money from two women, also college students, by blackmailing them with their morphed pictures.

A second-year B.Com student, Shelar, wanted to join a government-owned national airline and had even sent his application to the firm. However, an acquaintance told him that he would need to bribe to land the job he desired in a government organisation, the police said.