With incidents of unemployed youths being swindled out of their money by conman who promises them jobs in foreign countries increasing alarmingly, the youths must be wary before rushing to job consultancies, expecting to be provided with the promised overseas jobs. Such rackets spreading their tentacles across the district have left the people of the State deeply worried.
A recent case of such youths being duped by fraudsters opening offices in Dehradun has alarmed police too. Though one such a racket has been busted with one of the conman being arrested , it is highly suspected that more such rackets to enmesh the unemployed youths are operating in the city.
Dehradun police deployed a team comprising of personnel adept in dealing with such cases to bust the rackets.
The team members have arrested one Gurvinder Singh on the charge of duping unemployed youths of lakhs on the pretext of sending them to foreign countries for jobs on attractive packages.
While being grilled, the accused admitted his offence, saying that they had opened a fake institute named KC Consultancy Company at Raj Plaza on Rajpur Road. He also confessed to having made false identity cards and false bank accounts aside from procuring SIM cards against false documents.
Investigation revealed that three other persons Baldev, native of Kapurthala, Punjab; Kukki Sharma alias Ashok Sharma, native of Amritsar and Suman Sharma alias Sachin Sharma, native of Jalandhar were also involved in the racket. However, Baldev is the mastermind of the gang.Police recovered false IDs, PAN cards, driving licenses and cash amounting to Rs 1.05 lakh from Gurvinder’s possession.
Police acted after one Vikki Pal, resident of Vikasnagar, had registered a complaint at a police station. He stated that he was duped of Rs 1.20 lakh by the above accused on the pretext of sending him to Ukraine for a job. The accused had sought a hefty amount from the complainant for making visa and air tickets. Acting on the compliant, a case under sections 420/406 of IPC was registered against the named persons in Kotwali police station. Acting on a tip- off, police arrested one of the accused.Over 60 unemployed youths had been swindled out of their money by the trio.
The spurious institute KC Consultancy Company had given advertisement in the newspapers, saying that the youths who have completed graduation and post- graduation could approach the institute if they wished to get jobs in countries like Australia, Dubai and Singapore. The consultancy used to charge around Rs 1 lakh from each of the youths approaching it for jobs as per the probe.