Hyderabad: The Central Zone Task Force on Sunday apprehended a man for cheating people under the guise of providing them jobs. The accused was identified as Baddam Yellesh, 32, a resident of Azampura. He had previously been the victim of a similar fraud.
P. Radha Kishan Rao, the DCP of the Commissioner’s Task Force, said that Yellesh was a B.Com graduate. After his graduation in 2010, he started working at a restaurant in Abids for a daily wage of Rs 600. While he was searching for a new job, he met a man named K. Ravindra Swamy, who introduced himself as an officer working in the Secretariat. Swamy promised to secure a job for him in the HMWS&SB, in exchange for Rs 2 lakh.
In October 2014, Yellesh gave Swamy the Rs 2 lakh, but he did not get the job. Swamy then told him to follow in his footsteps and make money off unemployed youths. Yellesh proceeded to collect about Rs 1.24 crore from 37 job aspirants and handed over the money to Ravindra.
Angered after being conned, one of the victims, Bheema Rahul, lodged a complaint against K. Ravindra Swamy at II-Town Police Station of Karimnagar. Swamy was earlier arrested on January 19.
So far, he has cheated about 75 persons and collected an amount about Rs 1.6 crore from them. The accused and the property seized have been handed over to the Musheerabad police.
