New Delhi, Nov 11: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested three persons in connection with a case related to an alleged fake job racket, the Central probe agency said on Friday.
A case was registered against six persons and unknown public servants. It was alleged that the organised syndicate consisting of private persons was taking huge amount of money in the camouflage of processing fees/ security deposits from prospective job seekers in various Central government departments and PSUs, a CBI statement claimed.
The accused have been identified as Aman Kumar alias Rupesh, native of Dhanbad (Jharkhand), Vishal aka Abhishek Singh of Araria in Bihar and Ajay Kumar of Bangalore (Karnataka), the agency said.
It was alleged that there were layers of different accused who were operating in a manner that no prospective job seeker could approach the next level accused, for refund of alleged security deposit or for any kind of confirmation of the job.
It was also alleged that the accused developed a thorough system of issuing fake appointment letters, call letters for training at various centers and fake documentation of candidates at fake training centers, it said.
The accused adopted the practice of setting up alleged fake training centres in different states for a set of job seekers and conducted subsequent training with the motive of attempting to show genuineness, the statement said.
Searches were conducted at nine places including Patna, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Mangalore and Dhanbad. The sites searched included two “fake” training centeres at Sakinaka in Mumbai and one in Bihar’s Patna in which around 25 jobseekers were being imparted training after fake appointments for jobs.
It was further alleged that for the past two years, the accused had been running a fake job racket and duped crores of rupees from jobseekers.
