India, June 14 -- A 28-year-old man who was cheated of Rs.80,000 in 2015 on the pretext of getting a job in Dubai turned to cheating others using the same modus operandi. That man, now 38, was arrested earlier this week for cheating more than 80 people of at least Rs.89 lakh in an overseas job fraud racket, police said on Friday. The accused was identified as Jakir Daud Khan.

Police said that Khan was on the run for three years in a case being investigated by the Delhi Police's economic offences wing (EOW). He was tracked down to Padgha in Thane, Maharashtra and arrested on Tuesday.

"In 2015, Khan, who is from Aurahi village in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, applied for a passport to seek overseas employment. He approached an agent i...