Kolkata: One person was arrested from Salkia in Howrah for allegedly running a fake job portal and duping several persons, police said on Friday.

Saikat Hazra (35) created a website the name of which is very similar to a popular job portal.

He had put up misleading advertisement for job recruitment impersonating as the West Bengal Agro Industries Corporation Limited and cheated people, a senior officer of Kolkata Police said.

The police seized various documents, a hard disk, one mobile number, two SIM cards.