Special Task Force (STF) Uttarakhand have on Monday arrested three persons who had allegedly set up a forged call centre and duped unemployed youth of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of providing them with jobs. The accused have been identified as Deepak Paridar, native of Madhya Pradesh who is currently living in Mothrowala, Aadesh Singh, resident of Shimla Road, Dehradun and Pankaj Kapoor, resident of Clement Town, Dehradun. Police have recovered mini-laptop, printer machine, seven mobile phones, 10 SIM cards, bank account statements, ATM cards and documents related to their mobile numbers from their possession. The trio was sent to jail on Monday under sections 420, 467, 468 of IPC and the IT Act. Transaction details have been sought from the bank.
SSP Riddhim Aggarwal said that acting on information of some persons having set up a forged call centre and making huge money by cheating unemployed youths, a team led by inspectors Sandeep Negi and Vinod Gusain and comprising chief constable Ved Prakash Bhatt and constables- Virendra Nautiyal, Mahendra Negi and Mohan Aswal-had started collecting evidences through sources and surveillance. “Police also collected mobile phone numbers of the accused from the victims of the fraud. Police collected bank account numbers of the fraudsters from them too where they had deposited the money. Investigation revealed that the fraudsters opened bank accounts by submitting fake documents. SIM cards used by the fraudsters were also received from the agency concerned. They have been found fake too. They operated the call centre from a shop taken on rent at Indrapur on Badripur Road. After the evidences were collected, police arrested the accused trio from Badripur on Sunday night. The accused admitted their offence during interrogation that they have been duping the youths on the pretext of providing them with jobs for the past two years. They also said that they used to collect the resumes of the victims from job portal of timesjob.com and monster.com after hacking them,” he added.
Sources privy to the probe said that they used to target the unemployed youngsters from other states who were made to pay Rs 1,900 each in the form of registration. After a few days, the applicants were asked to pay Rs 5,600 for verification while Rs 10, 000 was charged for opening bank accounts. Investigation further revealed that the fraudsters had duped the victims of around Rs 50 lakh.
SSP Aggarwal announced a reward of Rs 2,500 to the team members for cracking the case.