HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Task Force police arrested a gang that collected money from unemployed youth after promising them jobs in the income-tax and Central government departments.
It even issued fake appointment letters to the victims, started training classes for them in a rented apartment and paid them Rs 18,000 stipend, at a stone's throw from the income-tax offices at Masab Tank.
Police seized cash, valuables, fake documents and equipment used for making the documents, all worth over Rs 15 lakh from the gang.
The accused, Mohd Sanaullah, and his six associates who had floated a firm, Income Tax Services, A.R. Srinivas, additional CP (Crimes & SIT), Hyderabad police, said. Sanaullah ahd been earlier arrested at Panjagutta for forgery.
Police said Sanaullah had started operations with 40 computers and cubicles, replicating the income-tax office layout and was paying Rs 1.1 lakh per month as rent. He allegedly collected up to Rs 4 lakh each candidate to issue joining letters.
