Man conning people with promise of government job held

A man who pretended to be a government official and conned people by promising a job in a central government ministry's project has been arrested here, police said on Saturday.

Deputy Commissioner of Police B.K. Singh said that the accused, Kumar Burman, 34, an engineer from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested from Central Secretariat Metro Station here on Friday.

Police said the accused put out an advertisement in a local paper in Tripura about a vacancy in a Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation project in the state.

Burman had worked in various companies in India and abroad but he was cheated of Rs 3 lakh by a company. Later, he decided to con people to recover the money, police said.

Singh told IANS the accused was acting alone and no ministry official was involved in the scam.

Earlier, a person from Tripura complained to Delhi Police that Burman took Rs 5.2 lakh from him by pretending as a section officer of the ministry.

The accused was arrested when he came to meet the complainant at the Metro station.

Police also recovered a fake letter which certified the complainant as an officer with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation since November 2017.

--IANS

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