In a classic Bunty-Babli-style con, the Borivli police have arrested an absconding husband-wife — Gaurav Hasmukh Shah, 42, and Rina Gaurav Shah, 40 — for cheating around 37 jobseekers by promising jobs and work visas in Canada. According to the police, the duo allegedly cheated victims of over Rs 1.63 crore before going underground after a case was registered at Malad police station last year. Acting on technical inputs, police tracked them down in Navsari, Gujarat, and brought them back to Mumbai this week. One accused who is also involved is still at large.

The case pertains to an alleged Canadian work visa and job fraud scheme in which a private visa consultancy firm cheated several jobseekers. Police said the accused were operating a firm named ‘The Visa Mansion’, also known as ‘The Visa Management Company’, from an office at Agarwal B2B Centre, Kachpada, Malad West, and promised Canadian work visas to jobseekers.