The accused, including a woman, were arrested yesterday for allegedly cheating 500 students through the fake campus recruitment agency, police said today.
Students from engineering colleges in Palakkad, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhopal, West Bengal and Coimbatore were victims of the accused, they said.
The fraud came to light after some students from different engineering colleges lodged complaint that they had been duped by the gang. Ninety complaints against the agency were received by police.
When some of the students tried to contact the agency's office in Delhi, they got to know that it had been closed down. Following which, they filed a complaint, police said.
Some of the students were also recruited to some non-existent companies, they added
The accused, who had already booked their railway tickets to Delhi, were nabbed in time, police said.
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