The Central Bureau of Probe (CBI) made three arrests as part of its investigation into an illegal employment fraud that was active in many states. Claiming to have preyed on desperate job applicants getting ready for central government examinations, the accused reportedly threatened them with death threats.
Operating for more than two years, the organized gang defrauded job applicants of millions of rupees by posing as processing fees or security deposits for public sector enterprises and central government agencies (PSUs). According to the authorities, each job candidate will be requested between Rs. 10 and Rs. 20 lakhs.
Following the receipt of fake job appointments for central government ministries, including the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Railways, and the Goods and Services Tax (GST), over 25 job seekers were discovered to be attending training.
Officials searched nine places, including Patna, Mumbai, Bangalore, Mangalore, and Dhanbad, based on information they received. This led them to two fictitious training centers: one in Sakinaka, Mumbai, and another in Patna, Bihar.
To prove the legitimacy of their business, the defendants had established fictitious training facilities for job seekers in other states. To provide the impression of authenticity, they would also bring prospective employees to real government buildings to pick up appointment and training letters, according to authorities.
Fake call letters, appointment letters, and training dossiers belonging to job seekers were among the damning papers that the authorities found during their searches of these purported training institutions.
According to their usual procedure, an accomplice of an accused person in Bangalore was observed escorting two potential employees into the GST office with the intention of getting them to sign appointment letters. Two primary offenders were discovered in Mangalore getting ready to open a new phony training facility.
Aman Kumar from Dhanbad, Abhishek Singh from Araria, and Ajay Kumar from Bangalore have been identified as them. They are also charged with holding fictitious training sessions for job seekers in Bangalore, Karnataka, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, Patna, and Buxar, Maharashtra.
No job seeker could contact the next level of the accused to request a job confirmation or a refund of the security deposit because the accused had set up a system that prevented them from doing so. The system produced forged call letters for training at other centers, forged appointment letters, and forged candidate files at fictitious training facilities.
According to officials, a complaint has been filed against six parties, including unidentified public employees. There is now an ongoing inquiry into the matter.
