Delhi Police New Delhi District busted a job racket in the name of Ministry of Labour and Employement

New Delhi, April 16

The Delhi Police New Delhi District busted a job racket and arrested four persons.

The accused were identified as Rahul Shrivastava (25), the alleged kingpin of the racket and three of his associates Arjun Gill (25), one Javed (24) and one Manish (20).

The New Delhi District stated thr Parliament Street police station had received a complaint of Nalini Nachi Muthu on March 27 that she received a call on October 5, 2020 from one Dixit Raj through mobile no. 9650459211, who introduced himself as a registered recruiter with Ministry of Labour & Employment. 

DCP (New Delhi) Eish Singhal stated that Rahul Srivastav is a master mind behind an organized job racket. The money received in Paytm Vendor account amounts to Rs. 78.38 Lakh from September 2019 to October 2020. This amount was subsequently transferred to IDBI bank account No 1983102000027210 in the name of EDUCATION PLANET.

The police added the accused lured and offered complainant to appear in an interview for the job of unit administrator and assured her of getting employment. When the complainant asked the procedure, the caller (Dixit Raj) asked her to get registered by paying an amount of Rs. 3540/- towards registration. She made the payment online by using her HDFC debit card. On 6th October 2020, Dixit Raj called her for the remaining balance amount of Rs. 20,060. Thereafter, Dixit Raj demanded Rs. 17700 to process her file; and Rs. 21240 + Rs.  24780 for resume verification. She had made all the payments via online.  

The police further said that Dixit Raj on various other counts had extorted a total sum of Rs. 3,43,626 from her through debit/credit card of Axis Bank and HDFC Bank on various dates & time. Finally, she was asked to visit Le-Meridien, New Delhi for interview process in October 2020. She was supposed to meet Dixit Raj at the lobby, but he never came there. 

The police stated that during the course of technical surveillance, it came to notice that one of the calling numbers was issued in the name of Arjun Gill from Chanchal Park in Nangloi of Delhi. The police formed a special team and after thorough search, Arjun Gill was apprehended. Gill used to work as driver of Rahul Srivastav from Sector 23 Gurugram. On hearing the voice conversation, he disclosed that he can identify the caller as his bosses Rahul Srivastav and Javed. 

The police further stated that at the instance of the Arjun Gill, his boss Rahul Srivastav was apprehended from Sector 23, Gurugram with two mobile phones and one HP Elite Book Laptop. The laptop was checked. There were several Excel sheets on the desktop having names & details of victims, which are being verified. The EXCELITE Dialer was also found, which is generally used by the notorious cyber criminals, since it works on VOIP and for spoofing the calls. When the trial call was placed on the mobile, it started showing different numbers and one of the number was 011-23717515, which imitated Ministry Of Labour & Employment. This same number was also published on https://www.esic.nic.in/ministry-of-labour .

One of the mobile phone used in crime has also been recovered from the possession of Javed. Its IMEI number has been matched. Apart from this, four other mobile phones and two diaries having incriminating data of several credit card holders have also been recovered from the possession of both accused, which are well connected with the crime, police added. 

The police said that the four accused disclosed that Rahul Srivastav was the kingpin behind the online job scam. He is the person, who arranged all the data of customers/victims from naukri.com and facebook and used to provide the same to his other associates. They used to call the victims and impersonate themselves as the registered recruiter of Ministry of Labour and Employement and induce them for making different online transactions. All the transactions were sent into a fake gateway account on commission basis and they used to receive the remaining amount as cash from the gateway provider. Since the arrest of accused persons, all the gateway providers have gone underground and efforts are being made to trace them.

PROFILE OF ACCUSED

Rahul Srivastava: - He is from Bihar. His parents came to Delhi in the year 1999 in search of job. He left his study after 12th class due to lack of money. He wanted to make money in short span of time, so he started cheating people on the pretext of providing job. 

Arjun Gill: - He is from Haryana where his father is a farmer. After the death of his father, his mother brought him to Delhi and she brought him up by working as domestic servant. He left his study after 10th class and started to work as a driver. He joined Rahul Srivastava as driver in September, 2020 and soon became associate of Rahul Srivastava.

Javed: He is from Seemapuri and later his father shifted to Vikas Nagar, Uttam-Nagar Delhi.  After the death of his father, he started selling fast food on streets. However from last 2 years he started job in call centers. He joined Rahul Srivastava in August 2020

Manish: He was born in a poor family in Shiv Vihar Delhi. His father is a worker, who used to work at construction sites. His father is working in Rajasthan for last two years. He is pursuing his second year B.A. After the lockdown, he joined Javed and became the part of this racket.

Rahul Srivastava: He was previously arrested in a similar case at Durg in Chattisgarh where he had cheated 44 innocent persons on the pretext of providing job of POs and Bank clerks in SBI.