Dehradun police have arrested two persons, including a former employee of Indian Navy, on the charges of duping unemployed youths of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of sending them to foreign countries on lucrative jobs on Friday. The accused have been identified as Ajay Kumar and Vivek Kumar, residents of Garhi Cantt Accused Ajay Kumar Thapa had worked in Navy, police said.
Vinay Kumar, native of Himachal Pradesh registered a compliant and stated that the accused had duped him of lakhs of rupees and a large number of youths from Haridwar and Himachal Pradesh, promising them of being sent to foreign countries for jobs.
They had made forged documents to deceive the unemployed youths.
In course of investigation, it was revealed that Ajay Thapa was claiming himself as owner of Bluebell Company. Acting on this, a case under sections 420/467/468/471 of IPC has been registered against the accused in Cantt police station.