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The crime branch has busted a gang running a fake training center in Jafarpur Kalan village in the name of Ministry of Home Affairs and arrested 3 vicious people including the kingpin. In the name of the Criminal Intelligence Department (DCI) of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the gang has been working as constables and office assistants etc. to the unemployed. Used to promise job. Photos of the President and PM, tricolor and many files were found in the fake training center, on which the Ministry of Home Affairs is written.
The police arrested the mastermind Ashish Chowdhary (27), a resident of Gurugram, from the spot. On his tip, Govind Kaushik (33) of Ashok Nagar and Amit Kumar (34) of Surajkund Faridabad were arrested. The gang has so far cheated 25 to 30 young men and women. Police uniform, fake appointment letter has also been recovered from the center.
used to charge five lakhs
The gang used to tell unemployed youths that the DCI department works under the Ministry of Home Affairs. This is a secret department so no one is aware of it. Kingpin Ashish used to call himself DSP of DCI and Amit as sub-inspector. Apart from extorting money in the name of getting a job, the gang used to extort money on the pretext of promotion and posting in Delhi. Five lakh rupees were collected by calling for training in the center.
Tenth failed kingpin used to give lecture to the educated
Ashish Chowdhary, the leader of the gang running a fake training center in Jafarpur Kalan village in the name of Ministry of Home Affairs, is not even 10th pass. When the Crime Branch team raided the center, Ashish was found teaching 11 young men and women there.
Special Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Ravindra Singh Yadav said that ACP Rajkumar had received information that Ashish was running a gang in the name of getting a job. He is running a fake training center on Rawta-Daurala Road, Jafarpur Kalan. Under the supervision of ACP, the team of Inspector Abhijeet Kumar, ASI Randhir, ASI Krishna and woman ASI Narendra Kaur raided the fake centre. At that time, Ashish was giving lectures to 10 youths and one girl in the center. At first, Ashish described himself as DSP of DCI working under the Ministry of Home Affairs. But, when strictly questioned by Inspector Abhijeet Kumar, he spilled the truth. He told the team that he has not even studied till 10th standard. The gang used to make victims only of the children of their acquaintances.
The gang was active since 2021
Ashish Chowdhary was running this gang from the year 2021. He had hired the training center in the year 2022. They used to tell the trainees coming to the center that they had been hired for a secret mission. DCI is the Intelligence Office of the Ministry of Home Affairs. On telling anything to anyone, there was a threat of leaving the job. Ashish used to call himself the top undercover agent of the government. The trainees were also given fake identity cards.
items recovered from the center
Three lakh rupees from fake training center, police uniform, fake file cover written by Ministry of Home Affairs, fake papers and letters, fake call letter, appointment letter, name plate, department logo, laptop, computer, color printer, two wireless sets, wireless Phone, fake 16 identity cards etc recovered.
used to cook food
The deployment of the trainees was said to be in the North Block. All were kept in the center from 9 am to 6 pm. They were made to cook food citing the demand for a job. Also, it was kept standing in the sun for hours. Everyone’s social media accounts were also deleted.
