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People cautioned against job racket

By Our Staff Correspondent

Mysore April 14. People in Mysore have been cautioned of an inter-State gang said to be running a job racket in which aspirants have been duped of their money.

The gang members are suspected to be from Bangalore but with a strong network of agents in other towns and cities, including those in neighbouring States.

More than 15 persons, all from Cannanore in Kerala, have been duped of more than Rs.4 lakhs by the gang members, including a woman, who promised the unemployed youths a job in the Border Security Force (BSF).

Speaking to The Hindu, one of the victims, who was in the city recently, urged the people, especially unemployed youth, to be wary of the fraud likely to be perpetuated on them. Babu of Kolari taluk in Cannanore said the gang members had contacted some of them with a promise to secure them a permanent job in the BSF.

An agent in Cannanore collected Rs.20,000 from each of them as advance and the youths were taken to Bangalore and put up in a non-decrepit place as a temporary measure.

The 15 aspirants were handed a "questionnaire" to answer and the gang members told them that it was a "written test'' for recruitment to the BSF. When some of them suspected the veracity of the statements and asked to be taken to the official examination centres, the woman told them that as they were making a "backdoor entry," it was sufficient that they answered the "questionnaire," Babu said.

The "examination'' over, the gang members directed the unsuspecting aspirants to arrange for additional Rs.30,000. Of the 15, three of them had not completed their matriculation examination and hence were asked to work in the BSF mess in Rajasthan. A few days latter one of them received an "appointment letter'' from the BSF with directives that the recipient of the letter report at the BSF Office in Bangalore.

It was only on reaching the BSF Office that he realised that the "appointment letter'' was fake and he had been duped of his money. For, the BSF clarified that it had not conducted any recruitment since December 2002. The other aspirants tried to contact the gang members in vain. Having realised that it was a part of a racket, the 15 persons managed to raise some money for their trip back to Kerala.

Interestingly, the contact addressed provided by the woman was found to be correct. She had also given an affidavit with an undertaking to return the money.

Meanwhile, a complaint has been lodged with the Kerala Police. The brother of one of the victims, who lives in Mysore, said that the racket could be part of a large network and youths should be alert to such ploys by unscrupulous elements.

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