Lured by job in postal dept, college student conned of Rs 5L

Rajkot: A college student living in Junagadh was duped of Rs 5 lakh with job promise in the postal department allegedly by two persons.
The complainant Shyam Trivedi (23), a third year BCom student, told police that he came in contact with one of the accused Deepak alias Dilip Bhatt through a friend in August 2019. His friend had told Trivedi that Bhatt would help him get a contractual job in the postal department. When Trivedi met Bhatt, he was told that he would help him get a permanent job and not a contractual one, but he would have to shell out Rs 5 lakh.
After Trivedi’s father agreed, he paid Bhatt Rs 2.5 lakh. The accused told the complainant to pay the remaining amount once he gets his posting. A few months later, Bhatt sent Trivedi his appointment order on WhatsApp and took Rs 2 lakh from him. Later, Bhatt made the other accused Abdul Kadir Sheikh speak with the complainant to convince him that his job was final. As Trivedi trusted them he paid the remaining Rs 50,000. However, the physical copy of the appointment order never arrived.
When Trivedi investigated on his own, he found another victim from Porbandar. Bhatt had also conned Dilip Santhara by promising job to his son. Recently, when Trivedi realized that he had been cheated, he approached police and lodged a complaint on Sunday at Junagadh A Division police station. Police said that Trivedi also mentioned about the accused cheating 24 others. “The accused had shown appointment orders of 24 other people on his phone to the complainant,” said a police official.