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Indian Express
19-05-2025
- Indian Express
Delhi: Fake govt recruitment racket busted, 2 arrested
With the arrest of two persons, Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have busted a fake government recruitment racket, in which the accused allegedly duped people by encouraging them to register on fraudulent websites that carried photographs of ministers and senior government officials. The main accused, Rashid Choudhury, allegedly ran a cyber scam by using the name 'National Rural Development and Recreation Mission (NRDRM)' to falsely present it as a government body under the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), police said. Both Choudhury and his accomplice, Ikbal Hussain (27,) were arrested on Sunday. The matter came to light when the MoRD filed a police complaint in March alleging that two sites under the name NRDRM were carrying fraudulent recruitment advertisements and falsely projecting itself as being a part of the ministry. The site would demand payment from the victims on the pretext of registering them for the recruitment process, said police. 'The scam involved collecting registration fees ranging from Rs 299 to Rs 399 from applicants,' DCP (New Delhi) Devesh Mahla told mediapersons. An FIR was registered, and a QR code linked to fake websites led the police to a bank account in Assam. According to the police, after the money would land in this account, it would be siphoned off to multiple accounts or withdrawn through ATMs. 'Thereafter, more than a hundred CCTV camera footage of cash withdrawals from ATMs were obtained from various banks and analysed. From the analysis of the footage and with the help of technical surveillance, suspect Ikbal Hussain was traced to Laxmi Nagar, where he stayed at a rented flat in Shakarpur,' Mahla said. A raid led to the arrest of Hussain, who told the police that he withdrew cash and handed it over to the scam's mastermind, Rashid Choudhary. A subsequent raid at Choudhary's house in Laxmi Nagar led to his arrest. 'During questioning, he was initially non-cooperative but later revealed that he was operating a well-structured racket dealing in fake online advertisements for government recruitment,' said the DCP, adding that Choudhury is a habitual cybercriminal. The police said that Choudhary recruited a team of specialists, including web developers, for creating fake sites and had hired operatives for managing advertisements, and others for procuring bank accounts and SIM cards. The cellphones, SIM cards and bank accounts used by the scammers have been forwarded to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), to be verified with similar complaints and ongoing cases registered across the country, they added. Hussain and Choudhary were booked under sections 318(4) (cheating) and 319(2) (cheating by personation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
The Hindu
19-05-2025
- The Hindu
Two arrested from Laxmi Nagar for running fake govt. job scam
Two men were arrested from Laxmi Nagar for running a fake government job recruitment racket under the Ministry of Rural Development. under the name 'National Rural Development and Recreation Mission (NRDRM)' to falsely present it as a government body under the Ministry of Rural Development, have been arrested by Delhi Police, officers said on Monday. The accused persons, one from Telangana and the other from Assam, have been booked under BNS Sections 318(4) (cheating) and 319(2) (cheating by personation), an officer said. The police were alerted about the racket after the Ministry of Rural Development filed a complaint on March 22 reporting the circulation of fraudulent recruitment advertisements on fake websites carrying the images of Ministers and senior government officials. An investigation was launched. A QR code was found linked to the websites, which the victims' used to pay job registration fees. 'This money was credited into a Central Bank of India account of Assam via this QR Code. The money was further siphoned off to multiple accounts and subsequently withdrawn through ATMs,' a senior officer involved in the investigation said. After analysing footage of cash withdrawals, the police traced and arrested one of the accused from Shakarpur, Laxmi Nagar. On sustained interrogation, he disclosed the location of the second accused, the officer said. The second accused, the mastermind of the racket, was arrested from Laxmi Nagar too. DCP (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla said, 'The second accused had recruited a team of specialist web developers to create fake websites that resembled genuine government websites. The recruitment advertisements were also promoted on social media and in newspapers to lure more victims. The registration fees paid by the victims were routed to bank accounts operated by the accused and later siphoned off through mule accounts and ATM withdrawals.'
