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New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI) A case has been registered against two Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials for allegedly duping a person of Rs 17 lakh after promising him a job in the Union home ministry, a senior Delhi Police officer said on Monday.The FIR was lodged on September 14 at the North Avenue police station, officials said."They (accused) both are IB officials.
No one has been arrested yet and investigation is underway," the senior police officer said.The FIR has been lodged under sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, they said.In the FIR, complainant Pradeep Kumar, a resident of Gautam Buddh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, alleged of being cheated of Rs 17 lakh by a man named Pramod Kumar, posted in the IB.Pramod had lured Pradeep for a job in the MHA in return of Rs 17 lakh by saying that that the money was required as the training cost at a place outside Delhi, according to the FIR."He (Pramod) assured me that it was a like a fee for training.
Initially, he started it all by claiming that some vacancies were notified by the postal department of the home ministry for which I was eligible, being a post-graduate."He (Pramod) then told me that it would require Rs 17 lakh, partially as a kind of fee towards training and partially to be paid to a senior official in the home ministry for processing my application.
Feeling nothing wrong or suspicious in it, I went ahead with that," the FIR stated.The complainant alleged that he gave Rs 17 lakh to the accused in cash, the FIR said."He called me to Delhi near North Block and got my application form filled.
While sitting in a car, I paid him Rs 17 lakh in cash (as he said he would accept the amount in cash only) along with the form.
All this occurred on January 2014."After January 2014, I received several letters of appointment and other communications pertaining to my appointment from the home ministry.