Dehradun police have arrested two persons from Rajeev Nagar, Nehru Colony on the charge of posing as Dehradun- based Indian Military Academy (IMA) seniors (lieutenant colonel and brigadier) and duping unemployed youths on the pretext of landing them jobs in the Army.
The police also recovered uniforms of lieutenant colonel and forged joining letters from their possession. The accused have been identified as Gaurav Singh Gusain, resident of Kotdwar, Pauri and Suraj Pundir, a resident of Haridwar. Police said that both have confessed their crime in course of interrogation. They said that Gusain used to pose in front of the unemployed youths as a lieutenant colonel in the army while Pundir used to pose as a brigadier of the army. They said that the duo used to target unemployed persons from ludhiana (Punjab), Dehradun, and Kotdwar. Police investigation further revealed that both had duped gullible youths-32 from ludhiana in Punjab, eight from Kotdwar and five from Dehradun- of around Rs 20 lakh in total. The Police had acted after one Harpreet, a native of ludhiana, had registered a complaint in the Nehru Colony police station in Dehradun, alleging that he had been duped by Gusain and Pundir in September 2015.
Both had duped him of Rs two lakh on the pretext of providing him with a job in the Army, he had written in the complaint. Acting on the complaint, a case under sections 140/465/467/468/471/120 (b) was registered in Nehru Colony police station on December 30 2016. Teams from the police special operation group and Nehru Colony had been formed to investigate the case.