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In Tajnagari Agra, a young man was cheated of Rs 21 lakh in the name of getting recruited in the army. The first arrest was made in the case on Monday. Bah Police has arrested the accused Sanjay alias Lovely of Sikandarpur village of Pachhaygaon (Etawah) and sent him to jail. The thug gang had handed him a fake appointment letter.
The matter is of Mudhiyapura village of Bah area. Village resident Shailendra Kumar had gone to Fatehgarh on 25 December 2020 to join the army. He told the police that during the recruitment process, he had met Satendra Kumar of Pachchay village of Etawah, Pushpendra Singh of Lovely, Delhi’s Sangam Bihar, Babita Yadav, Ramcharan of Morena, Pradoon Singh of Pura, Dinesh Kumar of Agra, Rahul Kumar. . These people had cheated by transferring about Rs 21 lakh to various accounts in the name of army recruitment.
The victim told that Satendra came to his house and transferred Rs 3.80 lakh from his father Surendra Singh’s account to his phone. Babita Yadav transferred Rs 4 lakh 18 thousand 240 to her phone pay account. Dinesh came to his house and took Rs 5.50 lakh from his phone. Fake appointment letter was handed over. Bah police had registered a case against seven people. In-charge Inspector Bah said that the accused Sanjay alias Lovely has been arrested and sent to jail. Search is on for other accused.
Check of Rs 10 lakh handed over for block account
When the victim Shailendra put pressure on Rahul Kumar, a member of the gang who had committed fraud in the name of army recruitment, to return the money, he handed him a check of Rs 10 lakh from the Bhind branch of Axis Bank on July 18, 2022. When Shailendra presented the check for payment in the bah branch of Canara Bank on 19th July, the bank returned the check on 20th July citing the reason of account block. The gang members kept coming to the victim’s house several times and promising to return the money.