Busting a seemingly well-entrenched job racket, Dehradun Police has on Tuesday arrested three persons on charge of duping hundreds of youths of Dehradun of crores on the pretext of
providing them with jobs in foreign countries like Australia, Dubai and Singapore. Two
of them were arrested from Delhi, it is learnt.
The accused have been identified as Mohammad Abul alas Malik, native of Delhi, Rahul Barua, native of Rajasthan and Hamant Negi, resident of Nakraunda, (Doiwala) Dehradun. Police recovered cash of `1.64 lakh, mobile phones, SIM cards and false identity cards from their possession, said Garhwal Range IG/DIG Sanjay Kumar Gunjyal while interacting with media persons in the presence of DIG/SSP Pushpak Jyoti at its Range office on Tuesday.
Hemant Thapa, a victim of the racket, had registered a complaint in Vasant Vihar Police Station, stating that a false institute named Star Global, located at Vijay Kunj, Vasant Vihar, 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.
Around 150 unemployed youths from the state had applied in the fake institute. The institute had charged each candidate with Rs 60, 000 for making visa for Dubai and Rs 2.5 lakh for Australia.
Taking cognisance of this matter, a case under sections 419/420/467/468/471/120b of IPC was registered against Ramesh Kumar Sinha alias Choudhary Sohel Akhtar, Hamant Negi, Rahul Barua alias Ranveer Pratap Singh Barua and Mohammad Abul alias Malik in Vasant Vihar Police Station.
Two teams from local police station and a team from Special Operation Group (SOG) were formed and they started probing the case.
In course of investigation it was revealed that all
the accused of this case had been living in Delhi. To arrest them, a team was deployed
for Delhi.
Two accused Mohammad Abul alias Malik and Rahul were arrested from Connaught place, Delhi on August 10. Based on their information, Hamant Negi was arrested by the team.
While being grilled, the accused admitted their offence, saying that they had opened a fake institute named Star Global and made false identity cards and false bank accounts aside from procuring SIM cards against false documents. They had also made false visas for Dubai.
It is learnt that the accused used to book the victims’ tickets in Airplane for Dubai from Delhi but cancelled them a few hours before the departure.
The main accused of this case Rakesh Kumar Sinha alias Choudhary Sohel Akhtar, native of lucknow, is still absconding and teams have been deployed at various places to nab him. IG/DIG Gunjyal and DIG/SSP Jyoti announced reward of Rs 5, 000 and 2500 for the team members to crack the case.