vadodara a travel agent who duped a citizen on the pretext of sending him to malaysia for job has been arrested by the city police ferozkhan pathan was produced before a local court that remanded him in police custody for 10 days on sunday the police said pathan has cheated over a dozen people in the city on the pretext of getting them jobs in malaysia investigators are now trying to dig out details of pathans partners and other links as recently several gujaratis returned from malaysia as they couldnt get the jobs they were promised by the agents in india mohammed sheikh a resident of karodiya village in the outskirts of the city had registered a complaint against pathan at sayajigunj police station sheikh said pathan had promised him a job in malaysia and charged rs 70000 from him sheikh went to chennai to fly out of india but the agent he met there said that he didnt know pathan sheikh called pathan and informed him following which pathan asked him to come back said the police pathan promised to return the fees to sheikh but later he kept dillydallying after we registered a complaint against pathan many more persons approached us and said they too were cheated by him he has done cheating worth lakhs of rupees we are now trying to find out about pathans activities and his partners said sayajigunj police inspector g j amin he added that some of the persons whom pathan had sent to malaysia are still stuck there some gujaratis who were stuck in malaysia for two months recently returned to vadodara and godhra they claimed their travel agents had promised them jobs in hotel industry in malaysia but once they landed there they were forced to do masonry jobs when they insisted on returning the agents took away their passports