A 27-year old city-based engineer involved in cheating several youths by making fake website for job opening of accountant with Panchayats was nabbed by crime branch Bhopal on Tuesday and recovered documents of applicants and computer.
On the receipt of a complaint regarding a website Jetexam.in which claimed that it was authorised by Mantralaya Group of Companies investigation was done and it was found that the there is no such thing.
The accused was identified as Prateek Bhardwaj a resident of Nehru Nagar who after completing his engineering from TIT College in the year 2009 started to work as software developer.
The jobs of special accountant recruitment under Gram Panchayat were posted at the website. All the terms and conditions for job and salary were kept same as that of the state government.
In the initial investigation, when the postal address was checked it was found to be in the name of a member of parliament. Within 5 days, 20,000 applicants of the state and across the state applied and several deposited the entrance fee which was Rs 650. A bank account in the name of leadspro was opened at Ratibad.
During the investigation, details of three companies leadspro, lookhype and Bindas Media were found and police said that it is possible that more company would be recovered which were used by the accused in frauds.
For making the fraud appear genuine, a toll free number 18001209006 was provided to the applicants. Toll free number helped to gain confidence of the applicants who deposited the fee.