Dhule :90 people cheated of 1.4cr on pretext of jobs in health dept
Nashik: Sarkarwada police have filed a cheating case against two individuals who allegedly took Rs1.4 crore from 90 people in Dhule, promising them jobs in the health department.
The fake vacancies included roles such as security guards, lab technicians, and nurses. The FIR names a woman from Nashik, who reportedly acted as an agent, and a man from Alibaug in Raigad district. They have been booked under sections 318(4) (cheating) and 316 (criminal breach of trust), among others of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanahita (BNS).
Police initiated the investigation after receiving a complaint from a 38-year-old resident of Sakri in Dhule.
The complainant, a relative of the accused woman, stated that she approached him in July 2023. She allegedly informed him about job openings in various health department roles in both Nashik and Dhule districts.
"The woman convinced the complainant that if he knew people who were looking for a job, he could refer them for being hired on contractual basis. The complainant sent 90 people to her, from whom she took a total of Rs1.4 crore to confirm the jobs.
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However, the individuals concerned never got placed, leading them to continuously contact the complainant to retrieve their money," a police officer said.
"Over the past two years, the 90 individuals neither received jobs nor got any refund. The accused from Alibaug had employed the woman on a commission basis. The accused woman deducted her commission from the amount collected from the individuals and forwarded the remaining amount," the officer added.
Since the accused duo was not returning the money, the complainant gathered Rs57 lakh — from his savings and relatives — and paid it to some of the people who got conned. On Thursday, he lodged a complaint with the Sarkarwada police station.
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