Fake job racket busted; one held

Hyderabad: The Task Force (West) police on Sunday claimed to have busted a fake foreign job racket by arresting a person who was involved in the crime. The police seized 55 passports, two computers, two scanners, a printer, a cell phone, rubber stamps and bio-data forms from his possession.

The accused, Shaik Hafeezuddin, 36, managing director of Talath Manpower Consultant Private Limited and Tours & Travels, Mehdipatnam, was cheating job applicants and was recruiting Indian workers for foreign companies without permission from the Protector General of Emigrants under the Ministry of Labour.

“On enquiry, it was revealed that Hafeezudfin posed as an authorised agent to carry out the business of recruitment for deployment of Indian workers with foreign companies as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, hospitality, etc., by collecting about Rs 75,000 to Rs 1 lakh from each applicant,” DCP (TF) B Limba Reddy said, adding that after collecting the amount from applicants, the original passports were kept with him as surety and if the applicants demanded him to return their passports and money, he used to threaten them.

Reddy further added that the accused violated the Emigration Act 1983 and cheated the unemployed youth by collecting money in the guise of carrying out the recruitment business as a licensed/certified recruiting agent and so far he cheated as many as 35 applicants.