Bhopal

Woman duped of Rs3 lakh on promise of job at AIIMS

Staff Reporter

Two persons including a woman were booked by Bagh Sewania police for duping a 25-year-old woman to the tune of Rs3 lakh. The victim provided the cash, as she was assured a job in AIIMS Bhopal.

According to the police, the victim Fiza Khan lodged a complaint against Zarina and Anwar Javed Khan for duping her in the name of providing job of clerk at AIIMS Bhopal.

In her complaint the victim claimed that few months ago she came into contact with her neighbour Zarina who assured her that she could help her in getting a Government job and later she told that she could help her in getting job of clerk with AIIMS Bhopal.

Zarina hails from Vidisha and was living in the neighbours of the victim for the past few months during which she came into contact with the victim and later committed the fraud.  Zarina works with a NGO Mahila Hastkala and Bal Vikas Samiti. She lured the victim that she could facilitate a Government job and arrangement a meeting with the other accomplice Anwar Javed Khan who introduced himself as a clerk posted with the secretariat.

Anwar asked to deposit Rs 25000 to start the process which was paid by the victim and in the month of December 2015 she was told that she has been selected and has to deposit Rs2.75 lakh and which was deposited by the victim. later when she checked with the AIIMS hospital Bhopal she was told that such kind of recruitment never happened and she has been cheated.

Based on the complaint the police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and have started further investigation. During the investigation police found that the accused have duped another victim Gufran who was duped to the tune of Rs25000.