PUNE: In a joint operation, both the Army and the Pune police violated a deceptive recruiting module, where aspirants were guaranteed jobs in several government services such as the railways, banking, and Territorial Army, defence police said on Wednesday.
Two persons are apprehended within this link from Solapur district in Maharashtra, along with the duo is apparently a part of a”larger racket”, ” they stated.
“A deceptive recruitment module between the issuance of recruiting documents and flow of outcomes of potential candidates via bogus sites, because of their choice to different government services such as railways, banking, and Territorial Army, respectively being conducted out of Pune, has been broken together by Army and police authorities,” a defence discharge stated.
It was broken after a tip-off supplied by the intelligence agencies of the Army’s Southern Command, it stated.
The module recently hosted on a bogus site of the Territorial Army with uploaded titles of candidates onto it along with a probe demonstrated they were charging a substantial sum for the deceptive recruiting out of innocent aspirants attempting to combine those solutions, it included.
“The aspirants weren’t only billed for their choice, but also were created to bear the costs of travel, lodging and boarding during their excursions to various doubtful locations for deceptive written examinations, medical evaluations, and instruction to place the deceptive recruiting,” the release said.
On the night of May 31 and June 1, both 2 kingpins – Bharat Krishna Kate and Pandit Pawar, were apprehended from Solapur, together withample signs, with a group in the Crime Branch, ” stated.
These touts were charging Rs 4 lakh to Rs 5 lakh in the aspiring applicants, providing them false claims for their choice in government agencies.
“The innocent aspirants were forced to consider their choice through bogus telephone letters, acknowledge cards, linking letters, medicals and coaching at suspicious places.
The duo a part of a larger racket, and it has been siphoned by Crime Branch and also Army,” the defence discharge stated.
The combined proactive act of the Southern Command and the Maharashtra authorities is reflective of the Army’s zero- tolerance to corruptionthe defence police said.
They also advocated candidates to not fall prey to those inimical components and report any luring incidents to military authorities instantly.