Police have arrested 16 persons, including 10 women, for allegedly duping hundreds of job aspirants by promising them high-paying jobs against payment.
A police team conducted a raid on the office of Ivan Achievers Private Limited in Sector V on Friday on the basis of a complaint lodged by a job seeker earlier this month.
Habibur Rehman, who had allegedly rented out the office space and used to run the company, was picked up during the raid.
“The men and women who have been arrested were trained on how to track job websites and access the resumes submitted there. With the help of the resumes the employees would connect with the job seeker posing as officials of placement agencies and tell them about various openings,” said the officer.
The employees would then ask the job seekers to pay them to get placement in top companies.
“They would ask for anything between Rs 10,000 and Rs 50,000, depending on the post on offer,” said an officer.
Body found in pond near Baruipur home
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The body of a 55-year-old man, who went missing from his house Monday, was found floating in a pond on Thursday, less than 1km from his home in Baruipur on the southern fringes of Kolkata.
The deceased person was identified as Ujjwal Chakraborty, a resident of Saleypur in Baruipur.
Police said both the limbs and the portion of body below waist were missing while his face was found covered inside a polythene bag. “We had received a missing diary on November 14. Chakraborty is a retired navy official, who worked with a security service company. He went missing on Monday and his body was found on Thursday,” said an officer of Baruipur police.
Based on a complaint lodged by his wife Shyamali, the cops have started a murder case against unknown person.
The body underwent post-mortem on Friday but the report was pending.
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