India, March 13 -- Three men were arrested on Friday for allegedly duping job aspirants on the pretext of providing placements at MNCs, police said, adding that six forged offer letters have been recovered from their possession.

According to police, the accused are Vikas Dabar, 34, from Haryana's Hisar and a resident of Gaur City 2; Arun Kumar, 28, from Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh and a resident of Sector 45; and Vaibhav Kumar from Bulandshahr, a resident of Khoda in Ghaziabad.

The investigation was taken up after a complaint by a Mathura resident who alleged that he was duped on the pretext of a job at an MNC, a police officer said.

"On the victim's complaint, a case of cheating, forgery and criminal intimidation under BNS was registered...