Police claimed to have achieved a major success after busting an inter-state job racket in Aligarh. The arrests were made in many states that one of the accused is reportedly an IT engineer belonging to Madhya Pradesh.
Inspector General of Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in Aligarh, Jay Narayan Pankaj, told the media, "The EOW busted the country's biggest job fraud racket, which was being operated by some engineers from Aligarh. In this case, we arrested an engineer, Arpit Panchal, from MP's Ratlam on Sunday. He developed nine websites which looked like government websites."
Arpit Panchal, a resident of Jaora in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam, is an IT expert and he developed nine websites and used them to lure youths for government jobs and dupe them of hefty amounts.
"In connection with a job fraud racket, busted by EOW in the last week of 2022, and which was operated by Aligarh-based engineers, we have arrested another operative of the racket, who is also an engineer," Pankaj said.
"Arpit Panchal was a website developer in the racket and had developed nine websites for the gang. The websites were designed in such a manner that they looked like government websites, and advertised government jobs for the people on the fake website portal," the senior officer said, adding that they had got a list of around 22,000 persons who were victims of these websites.
According to the police, the victims or the job seeker youths were from Odisha and Gujarat. The police are investigating victims from other states like Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Karnataka.
Arpit Panchal was produced before the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Court of Bhubaneswar to seek transit remand of the accused. The police investigation is underway.
Earlier, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police said it unearthed a huge job fraud scam being run from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. Those running the racket targeted unemployed youth in at least five states -- Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha.
According to Odisha Police, EOW arrested one of the primary accused namely Zafar Ahmed (25) a resident of Civil lines, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh in connection with the case.