Hyderabad: An ex-personal secretary of public representatives who learned about how the system worked, took advantage of his knowledge and began cheating job aspirants under the pretext of arranging jobs, contracts and other works.
The accused, Garikapati Suresh, 30-year-old was an engineering dropout. After discontinuing his studies, he started working under the PA of MLAs and developed contacts with Secretariat employees and gained knowledge about how the government worked. Using that knowledge, he used to give recommendation letters for TTD Devasthanam break darshans, Railway tickets and even the CM relief fund.
He planned to earn easy money and started collecting huge amounts from unemployed youth by assuring them that he would provide jobs in the Secretariat as Data Entry Operator and Supervisor/ Ticket collector in Metro railway stations and other government offices for which he used to charge Rs 2 to 3 lakh. He also cheated Government employees on the guise of transfer to important post of their choice and Suspension release, dropping of punishments, Inter-state transfers, etc.
So far, he has cheated about 30-40 jobless aspirants, Government employees, other innocent people and collected lakhs of rupees from them.
When the victims asked for their money he used to threaten them with dire consequences. So far, six cases have been registered against him in various Police Stations Saifabad PS, Jubliee Hills PS, SR Nagar PS, Punjagutta PS of Hyderabad Commissionarate and Sanathnagar PS, Kukkatpally PS of Cyberabad Commissionerate.
