CHANDIGARH: Two men posing as employees of a ministry in the central government allegedly duped a resident of Panchkula’s Sector 15 of Rs 1 lakh after promising him a government job, police said after arresting them.
Harinder Singh Sekhon, in-charge, crime branch, said the accused are Ram Mehar (41), a resident of Hisar, and Parveen Kumar, a resident of Niyana village in Hisar.
Saurabh Wahee, who runs a tailor shop specialising in stitching uniform for cops in Sector 17, said the accused came to his shop dressed in khaki uniform to buy belt buckles and introduced themselves as employees of the “ministry of welfare”. They came in a Mahindra Bolero jeep with ‘Bharar Sarkar’ etched on the registration number plate in Hindi, Wahee said.
“Mehar showed me identity cards mentioning him to be chief director and Parveen supervisor, security guards, at the ministry of welfare,” he alleged.
Fraudster was booked in 5 cases
The accused assured a job of peon or sweeper to Wahee’s worker Jatin in the welfare department and demanded Rs 10 lakh, claiming Rs 6 lakh would go to senior officials. The deal was later finalised for Rs 4 lakh.
A few days later, the accused came with another person to the shop, claiming they had got him a job and showed him an appointment letter to win his trust, Wahee alleged. The accused gave him an order of epaulettes of Chandigarh Police worth Rs 92,000. Trusting them, Wahee gave him a cheque of Rs 1 lakh for the job. Later, he came to know there was no such department in the government.
He lodged a complaint with crime branch. He called the accused to collect another cheque of Rs 1 lakh at his shop. A crime branch team laid a trap near and as the two accused arrived, they were caught.
Police said Ram Mehar was booked in five cheating cases in Punjab and Haryana. He was sentenced three-year jail term by a court in Haryana in 2013. A court remanded them in police custody for two days.