Bajaria police has arrested two miscreants for duping a 35-year-old Krishna Nagar resident to the tune of Rs 12.5 lakh in the name of facilitating job in railways. Police claimed that gang members have made crores through fraud.
Police nabbed Sudhir Dohare and Rajesh Dohare in a car carrying forms and documents related to jobs in railways.
The main accused, identified as Sudhir Dohare, used to work with police and was suspended in the year 2009 after he was found involved in cheating victims in the name of facilitating jobs.
On Tuesday, Sudhir Dohare and Rajesh Dohare were nabbed carrying few railway application form envelops. They confessed documents related to forms related to jobs in railways, other documents related to recruitment in railways, printer laptops, and seal stamps at his house in Avantika Colony at Lalghati.
Other accused identified as Amit alias Pintu Markande who has been booked for over two dozen crimes was used by the accused to circulate money on interest. Santosh Guha, Santosh Halwai and Manik Maathe are other gang members who are absconding and would be nabbed.
Police said that the victim Gopal Singh Thakur was duped by the accused Sudhir to the tune of Rs 12.5 lakh for facilitating job at senior level in railways.
In his complaint victim stated that he met Sudhir last year which was facilitated by one of his friend. After the meeting Sudhir lured the victim that he could facilitate job at Rs 14 lakh and Sudheer agreed. On October 8, 2019 he paid Rs 12.5 lakh but accused failed to facilitate job for him and never returned his money.
The accused used to charge Rs 15 lakh for Ticket Collector and Rs 25 lakh for Assistant Station Manager. Half of the amount was taken in advance. The police have registered a case under sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and started further investigation.