Two members of the gang have been arrested while three women are absconding
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Hyderabad: A fake job racket, promising jobs to people at cold drink and biscuits factories in Hyderabad, was busted by the Medipally police on Monday. Two members of the gang have been arrested while three women are absconding.
According to the police, the prime accused, Sheikh Jani aka Sandeep, is a native of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh. He had shifted to Hyderabad in 2013 and had joined as an office boy at a private firm in Chandanagar. There he befriended another accused, K. Anil Kumar, a native of Warangal. Anil worked in the same firm as an executive.
Inspired by their firm’s process of recruiting employees, the two conspired and hatched a plan to make easy money. They opened bank accounts with fake identities and started giving recruitment ads in local newspapers, offering monthly salaries up to Rs 25,000 for jobs of supervisors in cold drink, biscuit manufacturing units and other private companies.
“Through online deposits, they collected Rs 1,000 each from the candidates as application fees. The also collected identity proofs and photographs of the applicants and cash deposit receipts through email,” said Malkajgiri Deputy Commissioner of Police Ms Rama Rajeshwari.
They would withdraw the deposited amounts immediately and switch off their phones to avoid the applicants. They would then repeat the same process, with different identities, contact numbers and bank accounts.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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