MUMBAI, 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, claiming he was close to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde. According to the police, the complainant, Asha, 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 Asha get the job using his influence as he was close to Fadnavis and Shinde. Bhosale said he was going to attend a relative's wedding in Koregaon taluka in Satara and got out of the car near his village.Bhosale kept in touch with the constable after that day. Bhosale told the constable that some amount had to be paid to secure the job. The couple then paid an amount of Rs.5.89 lakh in six instalments, said a police officer. In April this year, Bhosale met the couple near Vikhroli police station and showed them a sealed envelope claiming that it was Asha's appointment letter, which required the signature of the head of the water resources department. "In May, when Asha asked Bhosale about the job, he kept giving excuses. Later, he told her that the work could not be done and that he would return the money soon. He then stopped answering Asha's and her husband's calls and eventually blocked them," said senior inspector Rajesh Kewale of the Pant Nagar police station. Asha approached the Pant Nagar police on Thursday. The police registered an FIR under sections 316 (breach of trust) and 318(4) (cheating) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita....