India, June 14 -- The police booked a man on Thursday for duping a police constable's wife of Rs.5.89 lakh by promising her a government job by claiming that he was close to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde.

According to the police, the complainant is the wife of a police constable at Vikhroli police station. When the couple was going to their native place in Satara in a four-wheeler, a man asked for a lift in Vashi. The man, identified as Ketan Bhosale, befriended the couple and told them that there was a vacancy for a telephone operator post in the water resources department in Pune and that he could help her get the job using his influence as he was close to Fadnavis and Shinde. Bhosale said he ...