The Haryana Police has arrested the key person behind a cyber racket that targeted job aspirants through a fake Haryana Staff Selection Commission website, an officer said on Friday. Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Haryana, Sumita Misra, said the man, whose name was not revealed, operated the fraudulent portal he created. He was arrested from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, she said.

In all, six people are currently in police custody, four from Gorakhpur, one from Kurukshetra, and one from Fatehabad, in connection with the scam, she said. Misra said the gang used a fake website designed to mimic the official portal of the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC) for CET 2025 registration.

The site was hosted on a third-party domain and used for collecting money from unsuspecting candidates via QR codes in registration fees, she said. After the scam was detected, the HSSC filed a complaint at Sector-5 Police Station, Panchkula, and the fake website was removed from Google and the QR code deactivated, she said.