Dehradun police has busted a notorious racket of the fraudsters, duping around hundred unemployed job-seekers while promising them jobs in the Gulf countries.
They have arrested two persons, Pankaj Kumar Pandey and Sunni Nahar, both residents of Clement Town, on the charge of duping around 100 persons of money ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh on the pretext of landing them in the Gulf counties with lucrative jobs. Police said they were old hands at the swindling business. Earlier, they had been sent to jail in Jalandhar (Punjab) on the same charge.
Police recovered a laptop, two printers, five mobile phones, a scanner, 13 passports, 40 medical reports and seven job offer letters for Abu
Dhabi. Police informed that the duo had opened an office
Balaji Consultant at Chandbani Chowk, Subhash Nagar in Clamant Town area around two years ago and spread
the net of the fraudulent business.
Police booked the duo under sections 420/406 of IPC in the Clement Tower police station.
Police had received a complaint on the what’s app, informing them of the existence of the fraudulent job racket, swindling the job-seekers of money while dangling promises of well-paid jobs in the Gulf.
Police sat up after it received the information. SSP Sadanand Date formed a team led by in-charge Naresh Singh Rathor. The team conducted through investigation and arrested the duo subsequently.
Interrogation of the duo revealed that it had been making the unemployed, enmeshed in the racket, to shell out amounts ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh. Police said they had promised the unemployed jobs in several Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar.