Dehradun: Man held for duping people on pretext of sending them abroad

DEHRADUN: Dehradun police on Monday arrested a resident of Dhampur in UP’s Bijnor district for allegedly duping 16 people of Rs 20 lakh on the pretext of providing them jobs abroad.


The accused, identified as Javed Qureshi , had promised Nehru Colony resident Anil Kumar and his 15 friends to send them to foreign countries for job and took Rs 90,000 from each one of them, police said.

Dilbar Singh Negi, in-charge of Nehru Colony police station, said, “The accused duped around Rs 20 lakh from the job-seekers in the name of sending them abroad for employment. He had also assured them visa and job offer letter.”

Negi added that Qureshi posed as the owner of a Mumbai-based tour and travel agency and posted an advertisement on the Internet to trap job-seekers.

According to complainant, Anil Kumar, he got in touch with Javed Qureshi through is advertisement last year. “Between August and December last year, all the candidates deposited Rs 90,000 each in his account,” Negi said.

However, when he did not arrange their visa, they confronted Qureshi and asked him to return their money, but to no avail. Instead, he changed his mobile number. On May 11, Anil Kumar filed a cheating complaint against Javed with the Nehru Colony police.

On the basis of his call details, police zeroed in on his location and arrested him from there on Monday. He has been booked under section 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of IPC.