Fake job racket busted in Guwahati, one held

GUWAHATI: Police on Tuesday night busted a fake job racket, the second one in a month in Guwahati, and arrested a 55-year-old woman for allegedly collecting Rs 2 crore from several youths promising them government jobs over the past two years.
The woman, identified as Jeena Begum, is a resident of the city’s 6th Mile area,
Hatigaon police station OC Bijoy Duwara said the police raid was based on a complaint from three victims, who alleged that the woman had duped them and others of several lakhs of rupees by promising jobs in the state social welfare department.
“Acting on the complaint, we picked up the woman and arrested her after due interrogation. A local court sent her to judicial custody on Wednesday,” the OC said, adding that police are looking for two more persons involved in the racket. The police officer added that the accused has confessed that she had been running the racket from 2020. “She had even prepared fake appointment letters,” the officer said.
Earlier on September 11, another fake job racket was busted in Guwahati’s Borbari area and seven brokers were arrested. The accused, who were detained from a lodge, had been taking shelter in the lodge since August and were preparing fake appointment letters.
About 10 fake blank appointment letters, bank passbooks and a few duplicate government seals of various departments, including the irrigation department, were seized from their possession. The case is still under investigation to unearth further links, if any.
In 2020, a huge cash-for-jobs scam in the Assam Police sub-inspector recruitment had come to light where several accused, including a former DIG and a BJP leader, were arrested. The CID had seized lakhs of rupees after raiding the residences of the accused.