Man dupes 50 by promising them jobs

NEW DELHI: Inspired allegedly by the easy money that came from duping people with fake job vacancies, a former advertising agency employee quit his job to begin cheating people, the Delhi Police said, after arresting a 29-year-old man and his accomplice on Tuesday.

To lure job aspirants, suspect Rohit Mishra designed a fake website resembling that of Doordarshan, deputy commissioner of police (crime branch) Rajesh Deo said. “He cheated at least 50 aspirants whom he promised jobs with Doordarshan and Prasar Bharati,” Deo said. He duped victims of nearly ₹15 lakh.

The police began probing the racket on a complaint by a Doordarshan official. “We analysed phone numbers from which victims received calls and details of bank accounts in which money was deposited,” Deo said, adding a breakthrough came when they scanned CCTV footage of ATM booths from where suspects allegedly withdrew money. “Probe revealed the suspects were operating from Khoda Colony in Ghaziabad. We arrested the mastermind, Rohit Mishra, and his associate, Ashish Singh,” the DCP said.

Mishra ran the fraud in association with Ashish Singh, a former security guard at an ATM booth. “Mishra would frequent one of the ATM booths to withdraw money and befriended Singh during those visits,” the DCP said.

Together, the duo allegedly made a fake website using logos and images from the official Doordarshan website and then started offering jobs with the broadcaster. “He gave advertisements in Hindi newspapers in many states, but avoided giving such ads in Delhi-ncr,” Deo said.

“Once Mishra would be approached by a job aspirant, he asked them to pay ₹15,540 as application charges, a few days later he would make them part with ₹15,000 as medical and insurance costs and then another ₹5,000 on the pretext of court agreement fee,” the DCP said.