Two key accused in job racket file for bail

Vadodara: Investigators in the inter-state job scam are a harried lot these days. Two of the prime accused in the scam have applied for anticipatory bail in a Delhi court. The cybercrime cell had last month registered a case of cheating against several persons for siphoning off money from bank accounts of unsuspecting job aspirants.
While 10 people were arrested by the cops, two of the prime accused Harshil Pandey and Anil Yadav were on the run. “We had intensified search for the duo when we learnt that they have filed for anticipatory bail in a Delhi court. They can’t file bail application there as the cheating case has been registered against them here. We can’t keep visiting Delhi for hearings,” said a crime branch official.

“They will have to approach the local court. We presented our side in Delhi court but the accused duo said the crime has happened there so they can file anticipatory bail application in Delhi. The court is yet to give order,” the police official added. “But they will have to appear before us to give statement,” he said.

The gang of conmen used to buy resumes of job aspirants from a genuine employment website that offered information about job openings. Then the girls hired in their call centre used to call up every job aspirant and offer him or her jobs in different firms.

Once the aspirants got convinced, they used to ask them to visit their website cariourjobs.com, hindustanjobsonline.com, naukriira.com, jobsongoes.com, futurecareersolutions.com, indeed4jobs.com, and hindustan-jobs.com. The victims were asked to fill up a form and pay Rs50 for registration. The accused used phishing technique to divert the debit card details and OTP uploaded on these websites to their mobile phones. They then siphoned off a few thousand rupees from the victims’ bank accounts.

If the victim learnt about it and questioned the caller, she used to blame it on technical fault in debit card. Also, after making a few calls the gang used to deactivate SIM cards.