The Southern Command Military Intelligence Unit & Bareilly Police on Friday have busted a gang involved in a fake recruitment racket and arrested three persons involved.
A joint operation was carried out following the military intelligence inputs and the police under Bareilly SP (City) Ravindra Kumar and officials of the Army intelligence team.
The gang was involved in luring youths to pay money with the assurance of giving them a job.
Ravindra Kumar said, “The complainant, who is from Banda district of UP, lodged a complaint at the Kotwali police station in Bareilly, saying the accused, Mahendra Pal, Rahul Sharma, and Shubham Kumar, had duped him on the job pretext. A team was formed and the trio was nabbed.”
However, the accused, who resides at Vasai village in the Shahi area of Bareilly, told the police that during the military recruitment in Bareilly they managed to get in touch with some of the applicants and took their contact details. The accused also admitted that they demanded and obtained money from few aspirants with a promise and assurance to give them jobs.
However, the arrested have been booked under section 420 and section 406 of the IPC and hence taken into judicial custody.
