Pune: Posing as a driver at the Mumbai collectorate, a Navi Mumbai-based man allegedly cheated a young man of his hopes of a government job. Vaibhav Mohan Lakras, 27, claims that the impersonator offered him a fake appointment letter in September 2015 and asked for a donation of Rs 4 lakh to secure a post in the Public Works Department (PWD). Lakras, who was preparing for the competitive exams and pursuing a Masters in Computer Applications, now works in the fields in his hometown Amravati.

He said Dattatray Kanade pretended to be a driver at the Mumbai collectorate with good contacts with government officials. "He told me that the post for junior clerk was available and that Sambhaji Sawant [a private placement consultant residing in Badalapur] would help me. I was first asked to pay R1 lakh, which was raised to R4 lakh later on grounds that there was a lot of competition."