The anti-extortion unit of crime branch has arrested nine people, including the local distributor of a prominent telecom company, for allegedly selling mobile SIM cards to Nigerian gangs engaged in cheating job seekers in several parts of the Capital. Investigations revealed that the accused offered fake jobs to people with Maruti Suzuki's Pune branch and demanded security money from them to confirm, their interest. Police have recovered more than 1,700 photographs of different people, photocopies of fake and forged IDs, forged photocopies of IDs of different persons without photographs, forged Customer Application Forms (CAFs) of Vodafone, Idea and TATA, 476 SIM cards of TATA including 326 activated 150 inactivated SIM cards have been recovered from their possession.
Additional Commissioner of Police (crime), Ravindra Kumar Yadav said that the accused have been identified as Saurav Gupta (20), Manish Kumar (24), Rahul (24), Kulwant Singh (30), Surjeet Singh (32), Naresh Chouhan (22), Jitender Bhaparia (23) Vikas Sethi (39), Hari Singh (31). "The arrest was made by a team led by Inspector Digvijay Singh, SI Vinay Tyagi and Atul Tyagi following on the complaint of a Bangalore based man- Niranjan Kumar Ramamurthy, who was cheated by the same gang in the name of a job," he added. The recovered SIM cards procured through fake identification cards were used by the accused to call up the victims for job interviews in Vasant Kunj area. The accused used to first select suitable candidates from various job websites and then call them up promising jobs in Maruti Suzuki. They also sent emails from the company's HR department with the subject "MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA INTERVIEW CAll".