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Mumbai: An official said that the Mumbai Police busted a fake job racket after arresting a key accused in a Mumbai-operated job racket and his aide from West Bengal for their alleged involvement in duping hundreds of unemployed men by promising them jobs abroad on Wednesday.
An official on Wednesday said the police recovered 482 passports of job aspirants during a search at the key accused’s residence, taking the number of such travel documents seized so far to 544. He added that the Mumbai police’s crime branch have arrested the key accused, Patit Paban Punin Haldar (36), a resident of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, and his aide Mohammed Illiyas Shaikh Mansoori (49), a native of Kamarhati in that state.
With this, the Mumbai police have arrested seven accused in the case so far. The Crime Branch laid a trap in West Bengal after it received specific information about the fake job racket.
The Crime Branch officials visited Bengal and arrested the duo recovering 482 passports of job aspirants from Haldar’s residence. The official added the police have so far recovered 544 passports and frozen 23 bank accounts which were used for financial transactions as gang members had collected Rs 40,000 to Rs 60,000 from each unemployed man to give them jobs in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar, Russia and Azerbaijan.
He said that the accused persons had opened offices in the name of a placement agency at CSMT in South Mumbai and suburban Andheri and duped hundreds of unemployed men by offering them jobs abroad. The official said that They had issued fraudulent offer letters and bogus visas to the job aspirants and disappeared after collecting money, leaving the victims in the lurch. The police launched an investigation and arrested the accused, seven so far, after an offence was registered at the Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Marg Police Station.
