New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI): A 39-year-old mastermind of a fake Indian Territorial Army recruitment racket was arrested from Uttarakhand’s Haridwar, police said on Saturday.
Yogender alias Bunty, a resident of Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, was heading an inter-state racket that was cheating the unemployed rural youths on the pretext of arranging jobs in the Army, the Indian Railways and the ONGC, they said.
On May 3, one Sudheer, a resident of Charkhi Dadri, registered a complaint alleging that that he was cheated of INR 5 lakh by the gang for a job in the Army, said Ram Gopal Naik, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime).
The gang used to take fake physical tests in Army grounds and fake medical examination at Base Hospital in Delhi Cantt area, along with the fake interviews, Naik added.
Police zeroed in on the gang and arrested its five members -- Amit Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Pradeep, Devender and Sandeep.
During their interrogation the accused disclosed that Yogender was the mastermind of the racket, Naik said.
Police also got to know that the racket had serving an retired Army personnel as its members, the DCP added.
