Ex-DJB employee held for duping youths with promise of jobs

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A former Delhi Jal Board employee has been arrested for allegedly duping youths of lakhs of rupees by assuring them job in DJB, police said today.
32-year-old Jag Pravesh, a former junior engineer at DJB, was arrested after a case against him was filed at DBG Road police station on the complaint of a Paschim Vihar resident on May 12, said Parmaditya, DCP (central) Delhi.
Complainant Siddhartha accused Pravesh of cheating him of Rs five lakh by falsely promising him a job at DJB, said the officer.
During interrogation, the accused told police that he worked as JE with DJB on contract basis from 2011. Later, he was suspended in 2014, the DCP said.

The accused was used to a lavish lifestyle and cheated unemployed youth by offering them job of computer operator at DJB and charged them in the range of Rs 1.5 to Rs five lakh, said the officer.