Fake job racket busted in Bengaluru, five arrested

18-Nov-2020

Five persons were arrested by the Sampigehalli police for operating a job racket. The gang had an office in the Shivajinagar area. They had also taken a space on rent in the Manyata Tech Park area to attract job aspirants of the city. The accused are Sai Kalyan Ram of Vijayawada, Vishwanath of Chittoor, Pattishiva of Prakasham, Gantala Dileep Kumar (22) and Pattishiva from Vijaya Bank Layout in the city. The gang duped 500 people, engineering graduates and collected money, between Rs 30,000 to 1.6 lakh, based on the type of the job that they want, according to the police. The gang members would call the aspirants and promise them a job. A police officer told the news agency, �Then they would ask them to visit their office in Manyata Tech Park called Cloverty Group and issued appointment orders in the name of the group.� The gang conducted job interviews for many at the tech park and issued fake offer letters. �The 50 candidates who visited the tech park on November 2 suspected something amiss after they noticed the office space was very small. They approached Sampigehalli police and filed a cheating case against the gang,� the officer said. Arjun C., one of the complainants, told TOI, �I had uploaded my CV on a job site. I received a call from HR India Services representative who offered me a job at Cloverty Group and took Rs 70,000. The company even arranged for a 15-day online training. They offered an annual salary of Rs 4.2 lakh and told me to work from home and after December from the Manyata Tech Park office.� He added that a lady named Rachana had paid the company Rs 75,000 to the company, Veena KR, Rameeth and Debasis Saho Rs 70,800, Mohammed Usman, Sanarval and Dileep Rs 30,000 each, Ranjit Rs 55,800, Naveen Kumar Rs 1.6 lakh and Sunil Kumar around Rs 80,000.