Lucknow, May 14 (). The Special Task Force (STF) of the UP Police has arrested three people for duping unemployed youths of crores of rupees on the pretext of getting them government jobs. The accused used to run fake offices pretending to be government officials to dupe the youth.
According to a press release issued by the STF, Abhishek Pratap Singh, a resident of Lucknow, Athar Hussain, a resident of Sant Kabir Nagar and Neeraj Mishra, a resident of Kanpur, were arrested from a rented house in Kursi, Barabanki.
STF officials said that the accused had rented a house at an isolated place in several cities of the state and set up a fake office.
The accused published job advertisements in newspapers and conducted interviews at their rented offices, the statement said. They used to collect 2-4 lakh rupees from every aspirant on the pretext of providing jobs in various government departments.
The accused used to hand over fake appointment, training and posting letters to these youths and also gave them fake training.
After collecting the money, the accused used to leave that place and settle in a new city.
The STF said that several fake identity cards, fake appointment letters of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, UP Jal Nigam and UP Forest Corporation, fake training letters of National Health Mission and four fake rubber stamps of Secretary have been recovered from the accused.
After receiving the complaint against the accused, the STF started investigating the matter.
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