The 2 males had been arrested from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, mentioned police. (Representational)
New Delhi:
Two males had been arrested for allegedly duping individuals with pretend appointment letters of presidency our bodies, together with central ministries, police mentioned on Saturday.
Khatri Iqbal Ahamad, 50, a resident of Narmada district in Gujarat, and Himanshu Pandey, 35, a resident of Kushi Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, duped high-profile people on the pretext of appointing them to the board of the Nationwide Medical Fee, they mentioned.
Based on police, the matter was uncovered when Chandan Kumar, an Underneath Secretary within the Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare (MoHFW), lodged a criticism about somebody forging a letter within the ministry’s title.
The criticism carried a duplicate of an order purportedly issued by the MoHFW.
The letter acknowledged that the tenure of NMC Chairman Suresh Chandra Sharma has resulted in January and Dr Suresh Ok Patel, a member of Gujarat Medical Council, is appointed as the brand new chairman of NMC and he can take his cost from April 3 to 10, police mentioned.
Mr Kumar advised police that the file quantity talked about within the above letter presupposed to have been issued from this ministry didn’t exist and no such order had been issued by the MoHFW.
The letter was a pretend, he mentioned, in accordance with a senior police officer.
After an investigation, police arrested Ahamad from Vadodara in Gujarat, Particular Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav mentioned.
Ahamad revealed that he labored for Pandey. A workforce, together with Ahamad, went to Lucknow and caught Pandey close to Charbagh Railway Station, Mr Yadav mentioned.
Pandey confessed he ran a pretend authorities job racket with Ahamad and his different associates. In 2021, they had been arrested by the district Crime Department, Rajkot Police, Gujarat, in a case of dishonest and forging appointment letters for presidency jobs, police mentioned.
Pandey was launched from jail final yr on bail, police mentioned.
As soon as out, he determined to go for greater targets and made a plan together with his associates to reel in high-profile people with the affords of appointing them to greater posts in varied commissions, they mentioned.
Pandey, a regulation graduate, had come to Delhi to arrange for aggressive exams. Throughout his keep, he met a Kolkata man named Raju who advised him that he ran a pretend job racket and persuaded Pandey to work with him, police mentioned.
Pandey began working with him, and after a while when Raju died, began his personal pretend job racket, they mentioned.
Ahamad, a garments vendor from Vadodara, used to usually go to Delhi’s Karol Bagh. At one level, he met Pandey in Delhi and joined his racket, police added.
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