4 held for duping people on pretext of getting them govt jobs

Four men have been arrested for allegedly duping people of over Rs 1 crore on the pretext of getting them government jobs, the police said today.

During investigation, it was revealed that the accused has duped more than 50 job aspirants since 2014, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Nupur Prasad said.

Asif Ali, a resident of Ghaziabad, had approached the police with a complaint that he had given over Rs 3.5 lakh to Rawender Singh (30), who had introduced himself as a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer and promised to get him a job, the police said.

Ali was called to Lucknow where he handed over the cash to Rawender and his cousin Ankit (29). Later, he was asked to fill up a form and called to Kanpur where his signature was obtained on a register saying that it was for training, they said.
 

The police said Ali was later called to Unnao where he was informed that he has been appointed in the Food Corporation of India (FCI)

He was later told that a court has declared him as a permanent staff of the FCI and Rs 5,000 was taken from him as court fee. He was charged Rs 5,100 and given a card of the FCI's labour union and asked to join at Fatehabad, Haryana in the first week of August.

However, when Ali tried to contact the authorities concerned, he found that he had been and duped, the police said.

Ankit, who too had introduced himself as a CBI sub- inspector, was nabbed on August 27. The identity CBI card produced by him was found to be fake, the police said.

Four forged Railways appointment letters in the names of various candidates were seized from Ankit, which he used to procure from Ajit Pratap Singh (31), they said, adding Ajit was nabbed from near PVR Saket, while Rawender and Gyanendra Kumar (25) were arrested on August 30.

Rawender, the mastermind of the racket, used to charge between Rs 3.5 lakh to Rs 8 lakh from job aspirants, the police officer said, adding role of other persons in the racket is being probed.