SIX ARRESTED FOR DUPING OVER 200 JOB ASPIRANTS OF CRORES

LUCKNOW : With the arrest of six people in Gomti Nagar, the UP Special Task Force (STF) on Thursday claimed to have unearthed a nexus of fraudsters involved in duping hundreds of unemployed youths of crores, after assuring them contractual jobs in the state government secretariat and other departments.

STF officials said the fraudsters used to trap youths approaching outsourcing agencies for different jobs. They said some operators of these agencies were involved in the racket and convinced unemployed youths to make payments to get jobs.

Vishal Vikram Singh, officiating superintendent of police (SP) of STF, said those arrested included the kingpin Siddhnath Shah and his aides – Dheeraj Kumar Mishra, Vikas Prasad alias Romy, Jitendra Kumar Singh and Doodhnath Kushwaha. The owner of an outsourced agency, Rakesh Kumar Tripathi, was also arrested along with them, he said.

Singh said the involvement of two more outsourced agency operators Santosh Singh and Rajiv Patel have also surfaced in the investigation. Efforts were on to arrest them.

While sharing their modusoperandi, the SP said the fraudsters used to first make job aspirants fill forms of different jobs and thereafter conducted fake interviews and even issued fake appointment letters for the post

of review officers at secretariat, clerks, computer operators and office assistants at different corporations and other departments.

The accused used to take ₹1 lakh to ₹15 lakh from aspirants, assuring them jobs for different posts. He said initial probe suggested that the fraudsters duped over 200 job aspirants of several crores.

The official said most of the victims preferred not to approach the police after being threatened with dire consequences, but one Vishal Prajapati lodged an FIR against the fraudsters at Gomti Nagar police station earlier this month.

The official said Prajapati mentioned in the complaint that the fraudsters duped him of ₹25,000 by promising him a review officer’s job. They also took ₹10,000 from his friend Anurag Yadav, assuring him of a job of office assistant in the Ayodhya Nagar Nigam.

He said the fraudsters were arrested and their nexus was unearthed while investigating this case. He said ₹4.71 lakh, two four-wheelers, biodata and details of at least 46 job aspirants, computers and laptops were seized from the fraudsters’ office.