Engineer held for conning job aspirants

CHENNAI: Central Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested an engineer who cheated 18 job aspirants of Rs 36 lakh promising them jobs in a multi-national company on OMR. The engineer, C Parthasarathy (28) of Pattabiram, was arrested based on a complaint from P Sivashakthi Kumar of Vadapalani. Police said Parthasarathy, IT graduate, placed an advertisement on a web page inviting applications for placement in a MNC firm.Sivashakthi Kumar, the first applicant, subsequently introduced 18 of his friends. Parthasarathy interviewed them and collected Rs two lakh from each. Later, he mailed them “appointment orders” of a company. The victims who went there were sent back saying the orders were fake.