Hyderabad: Army man, 3 aides held for job scam

Hyderabad: An army Lance Naik and his three associates were apprehended by Central Zone Task Force team for cheating unemployed youth of huge amounts of money and falsely promising them jobs in the IT sector and in the army. The Task Force officials have seized fake appointment letters, official stamps, police uniforms and other incriminating evidence from the four. 

Hyderabad Commissioner, Mr. Anjani Kumar said that the army man, V Rama Anjaneyulu alias Ramu who was serving the army as Naik GD at the Artillery Centre, Golconda, established a job consultancy firm called “Hike Consultancy” at Attapur. Along with his friend Syed Hasham, a resident of Shadnagar and a few others, his company lured many young persons on the pretext of placing them in reputed IT companies. Ramu and his associates also lured the youth with the prospect of jobs in the Indian Army.

“Ramu collected Rs 2.5 lakh from the candidates promising to provide them jobs in the army. He collected between Rs 1.6 and Rs 1.8 lakh from young IT professionals promising them jobs in premier IT companies. The gang would then prepare fake appointment letters and hand them over to the candidates. But the appointment letters did not have any joining dates. When the candidates queried, they gave them some cock and bull story about the delay,” the commissioner said.

In February, Ramu came in contact with two other army men from Meerut and convinced them about how good and reliable their placement firm was. Believing him, the two army men from Meerut sent applications of 25 candidates and paid a substantial amount to Ramu’s company. Last month, the two army men came along with the 25 candidates and paid another Rs 24.5 lakh to Ramu. He took the money to Mumbai in the hope of multiplying it. He contacted three persons there who would exchange Rs 24.5 lakh for FICN with face value of Rs 1 crore.