India, Feb. 21 -- A 32-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly forging the signatures of chief minister Siddaramaiah and other high-ranking officials to issue fake job appointment orders, defrauding two people of Rs.31 lakh, police said.

The accused, identified as HC Venkatesh from Tavaregere in Mandya district, was arrested by Mandya East police on Wednesday.

Mandya superintendent of police (SP) Mallikarjuna Baladandi said that the victims, Netravati from Gandhinagar and Mallesh from Kallahalli, filed complaints after realising they were duped with promises of high-ranking government jobs.

"He posed as an official working at Bengaluru's Vidhana Soudha and convinced one of the complainants that he could secure the post of deputy d...