Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
T
he Halasurugate police have registered a cheating and forgery case against a gang of six running job racket and cheating several unemployed youth promising government jobs.
Two of the victims,who have been working as senior and junior assistant in BESCOM for two years on contractor basis realized that they have been cheated and complained to the police on Saturday.
Based on the complaint the police registered an FIR against Praveen M Somankatti and Vignesh Hegade along with four others charging them under cheating , forgery and criminal intimidation.
B Lohith Gowda,the complainant in this case said that he met the accused in 2021 who claimed to be working in BESCOM and Railway department .
The accused claiming high level contacts promised to get jobs in different departments. Following which Lohith Gowda contacted his friends and relatives for government jobs and even paid money worth several lakhs.
The accused even asked two of the victims to join as senior and junior assistant in BESCOM MG road and Jalahalli division on contractor basis and even got the salary through executive engineer concerned account.
The duo was asked to work on contract basis for 18 months and promised to get them permanent role .
After the deadline when the victims in March last year went to check for the update, they were sent back asking them to continue work for six more months.
Even after several deadlines passed when the accused started giving evasive response,the victim realized that they have been cheated and filed a complaint.
Initial probe revealed that the accused are not the employees of BESCOM or railways and cheating gullible youth with fake letter heads and ID cards.
The accused said to have cheated many people and even got a cheating complaint registered in High grounds police too.
