The Delhi Police has arrested four people for allegedly duping over 4,000 people by promising them jobs under the Centre's flagship Ayushman Bharat scheme.
The accused have been identified as Umesh (37), Rajat Singh (33), Gaurav (26) and Seema Rani Sharma (33).
Police said that the accused had created a fake website that resembled a Government site and placed advertisement for thousands of jobs. They charged aspirants Rs 300 to Rs 500 as registration fees, the police said.
According to Anyesh Roy, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Cyber Cell, the National Health Authority, the agency that administers the health assurance scheme Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, registered a complaint with police alleging that it received grievances from public regarding an "unscrupulous agency" which was portraying a false association with the scheme. The details of the website — https://ayushman-yojana.org — were obtained and the payment gateway and the bank account linked with it analysed during investigation.
The arrests were made on the basis of technical analysis and a laptop, four mobile phones along with ATM cards were recovered from the possession of the accused," said the DCP.
"During interrogation, the accused revealed that they hatched a conspiracy to dupe people in the name of Ayushman Scheme of Government of India. For this, they first formed Ayushman Yojana Trust and accused Rajat Singh, being a web designer, designed a website like a genuine government website," the DCP said.
"Further investigation is underway and efforts are being made to nab the remaining accused," he added.