The ingenuity of fraudsters knows no bounds. The Amboli police on Tuesday took into custody a 24-year-old youth, who had been cheating aspiring actors of thousands of rupees on the pretext of giving them the role of the younger brother of actor Prabhas, in the upcoming romantic flick Radhe Shyam. The accused had been arrested in another case.

The accused, under the alias Pritesh Jain, pretended to be a casting director for T-series. His offer proved too tempting to resist for many aspiring actors, whose numbers the police are trying to ascertain. The police also said the involvement of others in the fraud is being investigated.