An alleged gang of fraudsters which used to cheat youths across the country on promise of providing jobs under a government scheme has been busted by the Crime Branch with the arrest of six men.
The gang came under police scanner after it received a reference from Prime Minister's Office regarding cheating with youths all over India in the name of providing government jobs under Rajiv Awas Yojana.
"The gang used to publish advertisements regarding government jobs in leading newspapers across India, conducting fake interviews of the candidates over phones, sending fake/forged appointment letters to such candidates and then inducing these candidates to deposit large amounts in the bank accounts opened on the basis of fake identity documents," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.
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The forged appointment letters issued by the cheaters bore stamps of government. The accused persons used to introduce themselves to the targeted people as senior government officers.
The accused, identified as Samar Malik (26), Manoj Sharma (26), Javed Khan (32), Abhishek Sharma (29), Mohinder Kumar (29) alias Monu and Sulabh Gulati (23) all residents of Meerut, UP were arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police on June 10.
"Rajiv Awas Yojana, a government scheme under Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation. The accused persons had opened several bank accounts on fake identity documents for withdrawal of the cheated amount through ATMs," said Yadav.
Following a reference from PMO, police registered a case under various sections and an investigation was launched. During the probe, technical surveillance was mounted and sources were mobilized to trace the gang.
A tip off was received that a racket indulged in cheating innocent persons all over India on the pretext of providing government jobs was operating from Ghaziabad, UP.
"On June 10, a raid was conducted at Arjun Nagar, Ghaziabad, UP and four accused namely Samar Malik, Javed Khan, Abhishek Sharma and Manoj Sharma were apprehended from their office where they were running a fake call center in name of Rajiv Awas Yojana to defraud people. On their instance, one co-accused Sulabh Gulati was arrested from Shastri Nagar, Meerut for providing printed forged documents including appointment letters of Rajiv Awas Yojana," said Yadav.
Further on instance of the accused persons, another co-accused Mohinder Singh alias Monu was arrested from Delhi who used to provide activated SIM cards to the accused by procuring the same on fake IDs.
"Efforts are on to identify other victims of the gang through mobile call detail records and bank account details of the accused persons," he added.
Police recovered two laptops, 14 mobile phones used in the offence, 20 SIM cards, two printers, 300 forged appointment letters of Rajiv Awas Yojana among others.
