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Conman gets conned: Fake job consultant sexually assaulting women lands behind bars

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Bengaluru: A Bengaluru man who often used to entice naïve women by posing as a job consultant and later sexually assaulting them has landed behind the bars courtesy to one of his victims.

As per reports, a 31-year-old woman Lalitha had received a call from a woman named Jayanti Suresh in the month of February, who claimed to be working for Talent Source India Ltd informing her that she had been selected for the post of a human resource executive in Facebook’s Bengaluru office and to be prepared for an interview at a later date.

On February 10, Lalitha received a call letter with a Facebook letterhead, stating that she had been selected for the job. She had also received an email stating the same along with the salary package. Later, she had received a call from a man named Dinesh Gowda, who told her that the interview had been set up at a resort in Ramanagara. He posed as the HR head of Facebook. Interestingly, the social media giant does not have an office in Bengaluru.

When Lalitha went to the resort Gowda took her to a room with the pretext of setting it up for another executive and tried to misbehave with her. She slapped him and ran out of the room.

However, determined to get him booked for his offense Lalitha called him back and told him that she wanted to take the job, where after she informed the Ramanagar police about Gowda’s attempt to sexually assault her. The police and some of the locals tracked his movements and on Tuesday, April 18 they arrested Gowda when he was trying to do the same with another woman.

After Lalitha came forward to lodge a complaint against Gowda, another victim too came forward to register her complaint. It is suspected that many women may have fallen for his trap on several earlier occasions.

According to cops, the accused Dineshraj Gowda alias Ananth Hebba used to go through job portals and make a list of women he wanted to con. He used to get their email IDs and pose as a job consultant initially speaking to the woman as Jayanti Suresh by morphing his voice and later as Dinesh Gowda.He would tell them that they have been selected for a post in Facebook and lured the women to the same resort in Ramanagara.

Gowda has been booked for forgery and cheating in addition to sexual assault by the Yeshwanthpur Police. He has been remanded to judicial custody.

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