When Jyoti Yadav was hired as an office assistant at a newly opened bank branch close to her hometown, she was overjoyed.
She had been looking for a job for four years while dealing with mounting debt.
The State Bank of India (SBI), the largest government-backed lender and one of the most well-known businesses in the country, asked her to begin working immediately, so she complied.
However, the police and staff from a nearby SBI office showed up at the bank a week after she started working there.
Yadav gasped. She claimed that after interviewing her, the hiring managers offered her an appointment letter, an identity card, and a salary guarantee of 30,000 rupees ($357; £273) each month. She and five others had started work.
Police say they are looking for eight people, and they have already arrested one.
Employment-related fraud is widespread in India, a country where millions of young people are in dire need of a steady job. Fraud pertaining to employment is not uncommon in India, where millions of young people desperately need a stable job. Over two dozen individuals were duped into counting trains for days in 2022 after believing they would be hired by the Indian Railways.
