Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 20: Crime Branch Jammu has booked a cheat for luring and duping unemployed youth of their hard earned money on the pretext of providing jobs.
A criminal case under relevant sections of law has been registered against Vicky Kumar Dogra, son of Tarsem Lal, resident of H. No. 19 Ward No. 5, Bishnah and his associates for their criminal involvement in luring the complainant and other gullible unemployed youth on the pretext of arranging jobs for them in different departments and thereby duping them of their hard earned money to the tune of Rs 47. 85 lakh.
The accused cheated the victims by handing-over fake and forged appointment orders for causing wrongful gain to himself and corresponding loss to the complainant and other unemployed youth.
The case owes its origin to a written complaint, lodged by complainant Suman Lata, wife of Rajinder Singh of Digiana, Jammu and others with Crime Branch, Jammu, who alleged inter-alia that the suspect Vicky Kumar Dogra, who is running an NGO on the name and style of Khushi Promotion Group at Shastri Nagar, Near Water Tank, Jammu, lured and duped her of her hard earned money. The accused claimed of having links/contacts for providing jobs in foreign countries to the educated unemployed youth due to which large number of unemployed innocent people among the complainant fell into his trap.
Crime Branch Jammu initiated criminal proceedings on receipt of this complaint in the form of preliminary verification, as per procedure in vogue. During the probe, it has been prima facie established that the accused, who is running a trust under the name and style of “Social Women Welfare Charitable Trust” and is organising camps, programmes in different places under the garb of this Trust, has duped the complainant and other innocent people of their hard earned money to the tune of Rs 47.85 lakh by inducing them on the pretext of providing jobs in different departments viz Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyaan (RUSA), Military Engineering Services (MES), Northern Railway and State Bank of India (SBI). The investigation of the case has been set in motion for in-depth probe into the racket.