India, Dec. 21 -- A law student and a web developer were arrested last week from Jaipur for allegedly running an elaborate government recruitment racket and luring hundreds of aspirants with jobs in the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the Delhi Police's Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit said on Saturday.

According to IFSO officials, the crackdown comes just in time as it prevented large-scale financial exploitation of hundreds of innocent job seekers.

Investigators said the arrested men, Kuldeep (30) and Piyush Agarwal (25), impersonated genuine government hiring procedures to avoid suspicion. They created a fake ASI website, posted an advertisement for 91 vacancies - seven curators and 84 junior assistants ...