An MBA graduate along with his female accomplice has been arrested for duping people by offering them fake jobs on behalf of a job portal from Indirapuram in Ghaziabad. Hundreds of unemployed youths were duped by the duo who bought domains similar to that of Naukri.com and Hindustan Unilever.

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The woman, identified as Naina Singhal, is a B.Tech graduate while the man, Chetan Soni, is a double MBA with specialisation in human resource and marketing as well as tourism.

The South East District Police said that they received a complaint from Info Edge (India), the flagship company of brand Naukri.com, that some people are being cheated by using their name. The job portal had to compensate the unemployed job seeker in order to protect its own reputation. "We were informed that recently a person was approached through email from the id career@first-naukri.com, identical to firstnaukri.com, one of the brand names of complainant company. The victim was induced to pay Rs 4,650 in the account of FirstNaukri.Com but actually, that amount was taken by the perpetrator to some other account," Chinmoy Biswal, DCP (South East).

An FIR was registered under section 420 of the IPC was registered at Kalkaji police station and investigation of the case was assigned to District Cyber Cell, South East District.

During the investigation, the Cyber Cell team collected details about the alleged persons from various agencies. Huge data were collected and analysed to gather information about the accused duo. The team then narrowed down their search to Indirapuram in Ghaziabad. The bank account details in which the alleged transactions took place were also verified but were found fake. The police team also procured a photo of alleged from the bank account opening form. The team had to conduct door to door survey in the identified locality to finally zeroing down to the office of perpetrators.

A raid was conducted at a house at Vasundhara in Ghaziabad on Monday and Naina and Chetan, both 27-year-old, were apprehended. During sustained interrogation, the accused persons disclosed that they both used to work together in a consultant firm in Greater Noida in 2016. In order to earn some quick money, both of them planned to cheat people. Computer equipment mobile phones, fake IDs and fake job letters were recovered from their possession.