Hyderabad, Oct. 16 -- A Hyderabad man identified as Mohammed Ahmed alleged he was forcibly recruited into the Russian army after being promised a construction job by a Mumbai-based consultancy.

A resident of Khairatabad, Ahmed was in desperate need of a job when he was approached by Adil, who introduced himself as the owner of Trust Consultancy and offered him a construction job in Russia.

With hopes of a 'lucrative' job opportunity abroad, Ahmed believed Adil and departed India on April 25 for Russia.

His dreams soon crashed after he found himself unemployed for 25 days. "I kept calling Adil and asked him to give me a job. But he made some excuse or the other," Ahmed said in a released selfie video on Thursday, October 16.

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