Mumbai, Oct 11: The Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested a former personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) from Delhi for allegedly running a fake job racket, an official said.

Nilesh Kashiram Rathod (38), a resident of Akola district of Maharashtra, had produced two Marathi films with the ill-gotten money, he said.

Rathod has cases registered against him in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Akola, Pune and also outside Maharashtra, and is suspected to have cheated people of at least Rs 2.88 crore so far, the official said, adding that the EOW has formed a Special Investigation Team to probe some 60 complaints received against him.

Rathod and his associates allegedly collected sums ranging from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh from young people by promising them jobs

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