Man arrested for overseas job scam
Between Aug 2024 and April 2025, Varghese ran a firm named Lambromellon at Kadamattom near Kolenchery. He allegedly used forged documents and identity details, including Aadhaar information of a Kozhikode native, to carry out the scam.
According to police, Varghese created a bank account using a job seeker's account details, citing it was for verifying transaction history. Through this account, he collected large sums of money from victims.
Later, he promised job aspirants that their visas would be ready by April 2025 and even prepared fake agreements to win their trust. Soon he went absconding.
He was eventually traced and arrested from a rented home in Thiruvilwamala, Palakkad, where he was staying with his family. Police said that Varghese has served prison time until 2018 for murder.
Four held with ganja: Kothamangalam police arrested four migrant workers with 20kg of ganja in Elampara on Monday late night.
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Arrested men were identified as Noor Islam, 26, and Suman Mollah, 25, from Murshidabad, West Bengal and Shimanjal Pal, 36, and Prashant Kumar, 58, from Odisha.
The contraband is believed to have been transported by train from Assam and the accused allegedly alighted at Aluva railway station and travelled to Kothamangalam from there.
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