BANGALORE: The Bangalore South-East division police arrested four persons, including a woman on Tuesday for allegedly duping at least 37 job seekers against payment of about Rs 2,00,000 each on the pretext of providing them employment at a leading IT firm. As many as candidates with MCA, B Tech and other degrees have fallen prey to the racketeers.
The accused were identified as Sathya Priya (25) a resident of Tamil Nadu, Rajiv Ranjan (30) from Bihar, M N Naryanana (29) from Kerala and Mohammed Azar (25) native of Andhra Pradesh according to Banglore Police Commissioner B G Jyothiprakash Mirji.
They collect documents and original certificates from them with a promise to get them employed in Wipro in Bangalore.
The accused would then accompany them to the Wipro campus, where Priya would arrange for a meeting, posing as Wipro personnel. The accused would then arrange for an "interview" with a person posing as an employee of the HRD division of the company.
The accused would then hand over the victims offer letters for the post of software trainee engineers with a annual income of Rs 2.94 lakh. The fake letter also asked them to report to Wipro in the month of September.The racket came to light when one of the victims suspected something amiss and alerted the police.
The police have arrested the culprits and seized Rs 61,00,000 including Rs 43,00,000 in cash, Rs 17,00,000 from their bank accounts, 145 grams of gold ornaments, 2 cars valued at Rs 8,50,000, a motorcycle valued at Rs 1,20,000, ATM cards, PAN cards and duplicate letter heads from the accused.
The gang had been running this racket for about 40 days. Three of the gang members were pursuing their management courses and were well qualified, police said.
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