The Delhi Police has busted a gang of fraudsters who duped three lakh rupees on the pretext of providing a job to the Education Ministry in the government.
According to the police on Saturday, the accused posted a message on Facebook groups ‘12 seats in education ministry for graduation interested candidates inbox me’. “The lady complainant namely, A, who is pursuing study and she was also in search of government job She found a message “12 seats in education ministry for graduation interested candidates inbox me” on one facebook group namely “Sant Nagar Burari” posted by the profile ID namely “Karan Tiwari”,” DCP Manoj Kumar Meena said.
He stated that the lady victim was in need and hence communicated with profile. “The alleged person contacted the complainant through WhatsApp ID and Facebook messenger and told her the process of getting a job in the ministry and later informed her about the processing fee and interview fees etc. To cheat the complainant and to gain the complainant's confidence, he made an email ID educationministry98@gmail.com and after that asked the complainant to make all communication on G-mail ID,” the DCP added
The accused have been identified as 26 year old Sagar and 24 year old Saurabh who both hail from Noida. “In this way, the alleged Sagar and Saurabh started taking money by making various tempting promises, which later the complainant gave a total of ? 3,00,000 in the name of job in ministry, after which, when she did neither get the job despite several communications with the accused nor did get the call letter, she lodged a complaint online,” Meena said.
Additionally, on the available details of the accused persons, it is revealed that similar complaints have already been registered against them on the NCRP portal. Several profile IDs in the name of girls with beautiful profile images found in the mobile phones of accused Sagar. “Further, four Mobile phones, one Keypad phone and three SIM cards have been recovered from the possession of accused persons. Data is being analysed for evidence as more connecting frauds have probably been committed by the fraudsters,” a senior official said.
