Three accused including mastermind of a job racket that lured unemployed youngsters with offers of recruitment in banks and post offices, have been arrested from Connaught Place area, police said today.
The alleged master mind of the gang Rajender Kumar, 58, is a graduate of Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and has 23 cases of cheating registered against him at various police stations in Delhi.
The First case against him was registered in year 1975 and that FIR was in Urdu language. Being fluent in English he used to interview the victims, police said.
The trio Rajender, Sumit Jha (29), and Dinesh Kumar (28), were arrested as they were trying to dupe five youngsters whom they had called for recruitment at State Bank of India and Postal department,said DCP New Delhi Vijay Singh.
One of the candidate Rahul Panwar from Shamli in UP, was called for an interview for the post of clerk at SBI. He was demanded Rs 5.50 lakh and has already paid Rs one lakh to the accused. The remaining candidates were assured of job with Postal department at payment of Rs 4.5 lakh, the DCP said.
After a prolonged interrogation police managed to recover 20 forged appointment letters of 12 different banks including SBI, Allahabad Bank, OBC, PNB, UBI, BoI and HDFC; and medical examination papers of victims.
Forged documents related to postal department have also been recovered along with computer and a printer used for preparing it.
Investigation of the case is continuing and efforts are being made to trace other victims of the gang, added the officer.
