Seven held for cheating youths with fake job offers

Hyderabad: Even before the Telangana government started recruitments fraudsters are minting money with false promises and fake offer letters.

A gang of seven including a secretariat employee and two reporters of a regional language newspaper, who lured the unemployed with false promises of government jobs in the Telangana secretariat, were arrested by the Central Crime Station on Saturday.

K. Nagaraju and Y. Chandrakanth Goud, who had a history of cheating, hatched a plan along with Ranga Babu who works in the Telangana secretariat. They took the help of their associates Ashok, Shiva Prasad and Sudhakar to cheat the unemployed by promising them government jobs.

They promised to arrange junior assistant posts in the finance department and collected Rs 4.5 lakh from Muneeruddin and Rs 1.5 lakh each from Srinivas Reddy, Jyothsna and Kishore.

A fake interview was conducted in the ‘D’ Block of Telangana secretariat by the employee Ranga Babu who posed himself as a senior officer of the finance department. After assuring them of appointment he issued the victims fake confirmation letters.  The victim who noticed that the confirmation letter stated the posts as data entry operators instead of junior assistant enquired about the matter and found the letters were fake, The same was reported to CCS police, who investigated the matter and arrested the six accused on Saturday. The police also seized Rs 3.2 lakh from them. Meanwhile, another accused who is an employee at the secretariat is absconding. Efforts are on to arrest the others, DCP Pala Raju said.