The police have nabbed a person responsible for defrauding many youths with the promise of providing jobs in foreign country. The culprit Sahil Srivastava runs a consultancy firm in Dehradun. On April 26, Tehri Garhwal resident Soban Singh and eleven others submitted a complaint to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Dehradun alleging that Srivastava has duped them of Rs 30 lakhs.
The money was collected by the accused on promise of providing jobs in the countries like Georgia, Russia and Dubai. He provided forged joining letters and fake air tickets and Visa to these unsuspecting youths. When these youths demanded the money back the accused threatened them and confiscated passports of some of them. On the order of the SSP, a case was registered against Srivastava, a resident of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh at Kotwali police station. The Superintendent of Police (SP) city himself monitored the case.
On the information provided by the intelligence network the police team nabbed Srivastava from Machhi bazaar area on Sunday. The culprit was planning to dispose off his belongings.
On interrogation, Srivastava accepted his involvement in defrauding 25 youths on promise of sending them to foreign destinations. On the tipoff provided by him, the police recovered seven passports from his possession. One of a passport belongs to a Nepalese national. The police team informed that the modus operandi of the culprit was to lure youths on promise of providing high paying jobs in foreign countries. He was successful in setting up a network of agents on commission basis. The police are looking for his accomplices Robin Kumar of Agra Uttar Pradesh and Gurpreet Singh of ludhiana in Punjab. The police team consisted of Inspector B D Juyal, Sub Inspector Navneet Singh Bhandari, Jyoti Prasad Uniyal and Constables Ashish and Chandra Singh.