Varanasi: In a joint action of Special Task Force of UP police and Military Intelligence, a gang of miscreants engaged in duping money from unemployed youths in the name of arranging jobs in government institutions was busted with the arrest of the kingpin and three others from Sarnath area on Saturday.
Acting on MI inputs, the STF team led by Inspector Anil Singh succeeded in nabbing Ramanuj Bhardwaj, Ajay Kumar Gautam, Anil Bharti and Vishvesh Mishra from Sinhpur crossing along Ring Road under Sarnath and Matics computer centre in Sundarpur area, said STF officials.
They added that apart from laptops, mobile phones cheque books, Rs 6000, eight fake appointment letters of railway and secretariat were recovered from their possession. Following initial investigation the STF handed over them to Sarnath police after lodging an FIR under sections of IPC and IT Act.
STF said that MI had collected inputs about this gang milking lakhs of rupees from youths looking for government jobs by giving them lucrative proposals.
This gang was targeting youths of Varanasi and neighbouring district by offering proposals of arranging jobs in government institutions including railway, Banaras Hindu University, Lucknow secretariat and others.
This gang was active in the region since 2017 and it had also made fake websites like rac3.org.in and sachivalaya.org.in, said officials mentioning that progress in investigation against the arrested persons so far has cleared that around 60 youths had been duped by it.