Tiruvallur SP launches drive against job scam

Special hunt rolled out to nab the fraudsters who cheated job-seekers

R.P. Chandrasekar, a well-educated youth from Pennalurpet village, Uthukottai, was looking for a government job. In 2018, a person who called himself Kiruba promised him a job in Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) for payment of a fee. The job aspirant paid ₹21 lakh in many instalments through RTGS. So far, he has got neither the job nor the money back.

In February, K. Malliga, 65, of Indira Nagar, Tiruttani, was on a tour to Puducherry. A couple, Iyappan and his wife Manjula, became friends with her during the journey. The couple pretended to be influential and promised her a teacher’s post at a government school. The woman immediately sold her seven sovereigns of jewellery and paid the couple ₹2 lakh. The duo failed to get the job and threatened the woman when she demanded her money back.

In 2018, D. Sathyaraj, 29, Bommarajipet, Pallipet, was introduced to a few people at Tiruvallur railway station. Sathyaraj and five others paid ₹2 lakh each to Pushparaj as he assured office assistant posts in Southern Railway, Chennai Division. Likewise, 40 candidates have paid ₹2 crore for jobs. Pushparaj and his associates were arrested by police in August. Similarly, more than a dozen cases of job fraud are under investigation of District Crime Branch, Tiruvallur.