The Cuffe Parade Police arrested a 25-year-old man from Noida for duping a Mumbai based woman of Rs 1.21 lakh. The accused was arrested for arranging dummy bank accounts and cheating victims by giving them false promises of jobs with lucrative salaries at nationalised banks through the job search portal.

The accused has been identified as Vikrant Giri, 25, a Noida resident, who was arrested on last Saturday. Giri had managed to arrange for bank accounts where the cash would be transferred by the potential victims. Giri is the second accused to be arrested in the case. The police are on the lookout for his accomplices who were operating the racket.

On July 14, Cuffe Parade police had arrested Devrushi Ashok Kumar Sharma, 24, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. During the probe, it was found that Sharma was asked to open a bank account and the cash was transferred into his bank account. Sharma was getting a commission of 20 percent for the same.