LUCKNOW: A man was duped of Rs 1.35 lakh in the name of a fake job at a hospital, in Janakipuram on Monday. The duped man's father, CJ Yadav , works at the chief medical officer's (CMO) office. The victim, Ayush Yadav, lives in sector D of Secretariat Colony and had completed his MBBS but was unemployed."On January 8, I got a call from a hospital and was asked to deposit Rs 2,000 as registration fee. Later, I got another call and was asked to deposit Rs 1.35 lakh in a bank account for the job," he said in his complaint to the police.Ayush said that after he had deposited the money, he got a letter and was asked to contact the hospital's human resource department."When I reached the hospital, I came to know that I have been duped. The hospital officials said they had never advertised for a vacancy for post I had applied for," he said. Station house officer of Jankipuram police station, Raj Kumar, said an FIR has been registered and a probe was underway.

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