Couple held for duping over 100 job seekers

New Delhi: Profile does matter, especially when you are using it as a bait to catch unsuspecting job seekers. Sumit Barara, 23, and Jahnavi, 21, knew it too well.

Sumit, a crime reporter with a local news channel, and Jahnavi, an air hostess with a reputed air carrier, had the perfect plan to dupe those who were young and restless for a job.

The Delhi police arrested the couple on Thursday for duping at least 150 young job seekers who were promised lucrative jobs in multi-national companies.

"Sumit worked as a crime reporter in a news channel in Ghaziabad and his wife Jahnavi worked as an air hostess in a leading airline. They used to collect information on unemployed youth from naukri.com and had various mobile numbers and multiple fake identity documents," police said.

The couple used to contact the job seekers over e-mail and offer jobs at reputed multi-national companies. Once someone took the bait, they asked for money after which a fake joining letter was sent over the Internet.

Sumit, a class 12 dropout, joined the news channel where his father was Chief of Bureau. Earlier, he had worked for another local news channel in Ghaziabad.

He also ran a real estate business for some time but became a storekeeper at the godown of a leading construction company at Palam airport.

Here he met Jahnavi and they married in July 2009. Sumit hatched a plan to make easy money and his wife readily joined him. Both of them left their jobs and rented a house in south Delhi's Munirka from where they were running the racket.