Job racket busted; 2 Delhi men arrested

Tribune News Service

Palwal, June 18

Busting a gang operating a fake recruitment network, the district police have arrested two persons. Around 100 fake appointment letters, stamps, SIM cards, printing machine and cash amounting to Rs 12,000 have been seized.

SP Deepak Gahlawat said that the accused identified as Arjun Tak and Vinod Kumar, both hailing from Delhi, have been nabbed by a team of the crime branch on the basis of inputs.

He said while Arjun was arrested on June 11, Vinod was nabbed on June 15 on the basis of information provided by Arjun. A third accused identified as Manoj, a resident of Mathura district, is absconding.

The probe into the racket was launched in response to a complaint lodged by one Umesh Kumar of Chandhut village on April 7. He told the police that he was duped of Rs 26,000 by some persons who gave him a fake appointment letter for the post of peon in the local judicial complex.

The accused used to contact candidates who had applied mainly for Class IV posts and had not been selected. Then, they used to offer appointments against payment. Once the money was transferred to them, they stopped answering the phone call of the victim.

While one of the accused is already on seven-day police remand, the other accused was remanded to judicial custody on Friday.