Kerala techie conned by job sharks

A computer engineer from Kerala, Sunil Kumar, and his two aides were conned by a gang on the pretext of offering them a cushy job in the island of Malta on the Mediterranean Sea. The techie was called to Lucknow en route to Mumbai by the kingpin to finalise employment details. When Kumar and his aides, Amal Antu and S K Manoj, checked in at Hotel Shanta on Latouche Road, gang members masquerading as Intelligence Bureau sleuths raided their room on Wednesday morning citing a police tip-off, locked them in the washroom and decamped with foreign currency worth more than Rs 10lakh. Their facilitator, Hakim, who masterminded the crime is on the run after the gang was busted by police on Thursday.