Migrants being duped with fake forms in Gurugram

Siddharth Tiwari | TNN | Updated: May 2, 2020, 10:14 IST

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GURUGRAM: Migrant workers living in and around Gurugram are being duped allegedly by some locals with fake registration forms and deluded that upon presenting the documents signed by their sarpanch they will be allowed to return home. The alleged scam came to light after the Union home ministry announced inter-state movement of workers. Desperate to go back, these workers are buying these fake forms and taking it to the village heads, asking them for attestation and inquiring about the location and time of the buses that’ll take them home after showing these documents.
Sarpanches of several villages that TOI spoke to also highlighted the issue and claimed that even before they could receive any registration orders from the administration, the fraudsters had started selling the fake forms.
“I don’t know how these fraudsters got the information even before we received the order. On Thursday evening, several people came to me and asked me to sign the documents that they had purchased from some local people. They even asked me when and where to produce these documents to go back home,” Kankrola village sarpanch Fakir Chand said. The workers, on the other hand, are making desperate calls to their unions, seeking clarification. “Even in times of crisis, locals want to squeeze out all they can from us. I don’t know who to believe. It gives all the more reason not to stay back here. Clearly, we don’t belong here,” said Rakesh Singh, a migrant from UP’s Kanpur district.
Administration officials too have confirmed that they have been apprised about such activities. “Other than village heads, nobody is authorised to collect this database. The administration has released no such form for sale and we have told village heads to lodge police complaints,” said an administration official.