Promising police jobs, man dupes three of Rs 21.50 lakh

Ludhiana, July 13

The Model Town police yesterday registered a case against a Hoshiarpur-based man who duped three persons of Rs 21.50 lakh on the pretext of recruiting them in the Punjab Police.

The suspect has been identified as Pinder Singh Sodhi, a resident of Mahilpur Haweli, Hoshiarpur.

The complainant, Gurminder Singh, a resident of Pharwahi, Barnala, said in March this year, he had lodged a police complaint that the suspect claiming his good relations with senior functionaries of the Punjab Government assured them direct recruitment in the Punjab Police as constable.

“Since me, Major Singh and Joginder Singh were looking for a government job, we gave Rs 21.50 lakh to the suspect for our recruitment in the Punjab Police. After receiving the money, he failed to provide us job. When we asked the suspect to at least return the money, he refused. Afterwards, we lodged a police complaint in March and after over four-month probe, the police registered a case against the suspect,” the complainant said.

Investigating officer assistant sub-inspector Baldev Singh said after registering a case, further investigation in the case was launched by the police and the suspect would be nabbed soon.

It is not an isolated case, earlier also, such fraud cases have come to the fore. Fraudsters on the pretext of providing jobs in the Punjab Police had duped aspirants of lakhs of rupees. The police have also been issuing advisory for the people that there is no system of direct recruitment system in the Police Department and whenever there is a recruitment, the entire process would be transparent and the department will be publicising the recruitment programme through newspaper or other media. In June this year, the Vigilance Bureau busted a fake recruitment racket of providing jobs in the Punjab Police and two police employees were also arrested.