CHENNAI: The Central Crime Branch sleuths of the suburban police nabbed a man from Madurai on Sunday on charges of cheating over 100 people across the State to the tune of Rs 1.21 crore promising them government jobs.Acting on a tip off, a special team nabbed VT Muralidharan (46) of Thirumangalam, Madurai district when he arrived in a car at Tirusulum bus stop here on Sunday. Upon interrogation, he confessed to having cheated over 14 persons in suburban Chennai, promising them jobs in the Secretariat and the Electricity Board. He took Rs 22.75 lakh from them and got them neither a job nor paid their money back. Instead, he gave them fake appointment orders. He further confessed to having cheated over 107 persons across the State to the tune of Rs 1.21 crore.Police began investigation on the case after they received complaints from 14 persons, including T Velammal (58) of Avadi, who told police that she got introduced to Muralidharan through an acquaintance, Anandan, of Avadi in the year 2010. Muralidharan lured them by saying that there were jobs in the Secretariat and the Electricity Board that he could get them. Falling prey, Velammal gave him Rs 22.75 lakh to get a transfer for her son Senthil Kumar, who was working in the Railways, besides a job for her daughter at the Secretariat. “He has cheated group of people in Tirunelveli and Chennai city besides in suburban areas. The complainants were searching for him for the past one-and-a-half years and they lodged a complaint with the suburban police commissioner only this month. We caught him after we got information that he was at Tirusulum as he had some property there and was into real estate business,” said a CCB official.
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