Four men have been arrested for allegedly duping people of over Rs 1 crore on the pretext of getting them Government jobs, the police said on Friday. During investigation, the accused revealed that they have duped more than 50 job aspirants since 2014, said Nupur Prasad, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara).
The senior police officer said that four fake Railways appointment letters in the names of various candidates were seized from Ankit, which he used to procure from Ajit Pratap Singh (31), adding that Ajit was nabbed from near PVR Saket, while Rawender and Gyanendra Kumar (25) were arrested on August 30. Rawender, the mastermind of the racket, used to charge between Rs 3.5 lakh to Rs 8 lakh from job aspirants, the police officer said, adding that role of other people in the racket is still being probed.
Police said that one Asif Ali, a resident of Ghaziabad, had approached the police with a complaint that he had given over Rs 3.5 lakh to Rawender Singh (30), who had introduced himself as a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer and promised to get him a job.
Ali was called to lucknow where he handed over the cash to Rawender and his cousin Ankit (29). later, he was asked to fill up a form and was then called to Kanpur where his signature was obtained on a register saying that it was for training.
The senior officer said, Ali was later called to Unnao where he was informed that he has been appointed in the Food Corporation of India (FCI). He was later told that a court has declared him as a permanent staff of the FCI and Rs 5,000 was taken from him as court fee. He was charged Rs 5,100 and given a card of the FCI's labour union and was asked to join at Fatehabad, Haryana in the first week of August.
However, when Ali tried to contact the FCI itself, he found that he had been duped. Ankit, who too had introduced himself as a CBI Sub-Inspector, was nabbed on August 27. The identity CBI card produced by him was found to be fake.