Fake placement agency owner held for cheating job aspirants

NEW DELHI: A fake placement agency that cheated job aspirants has been busted by Delhi Police. The 35-year-old director of the agency, Rohit Kumar Verma, was arrested

NEW DELHI: A fake placement agency that cheated job aspirants has been busted by Delhi Police. The 35-year-old director of the agency, Rohit Kumar Verma, was arrested on Monday. His wife is on the run, police said on Saturday.

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The couple, police said, had opened another fake recruitment company in central Delhi’s Barakhamba Road and more than 100 job aspirants had already approached them.

The couple claimed they owned a software company and employed network and security engineers. They opened a fake institute in South Extension-2, named CPNET, where they sent job aspirants to undergo a CCSA (checkpoint certificate security administration) course.

“They used to charge Rs 23,000 from each candidate for the course. After completion, students were certificates which would be fake. After completing all formalities, students were never employed,” said Mandeep Singh Randhawa, deputy commissioner of police (south-east).

Once they cheated job seekers in one place, they would close office, deactivate all their phone numbers and open another office in a different place with a different name.

The six told police that in January this year they had appeared for interview for the post of ‘Network & Security Engineer’ in ‘Secure Plus’ company.

The company’s director Rohit Kumar Verma gave them offer letters. Rs 23,000 per month was their salary. They were told that their profiles were incomplete and they had to complete the CCSA course from ‘CPNET’ institute. The six paid Rs 23,000 each and got a week’s training by their trainer, Umesh and received certificates.

“The candidates approached Rohit but he did not provide them jobs. He closed his office and went underground,” said a police officer. Investigators questioned Rohit’s employees, who claimed that they too were cheated. Probe revealed Rohit had opened another fake company named “RENK IT” in central Delhi. A raid was conducted and he was arrested. “He duped more than 100 youths We are looking for his wife, Chandrakanta,” the officer added.