Army recruitment scam: 2, including Nepal resident, held

Gurgaon | Tuesday | 5th February, 2019

Summary:

AMBALA: The district police has registered a case of cheating, forgery and criminal intimidation against two persons in Army recruitment scam. They were presented before the court that has sent them to six-day police remand and further involvements would be extracted during interrogation." "The accused neither provide any jobs to them nor did they return the money when demanded. Instead, they started threatening us of dire consequences," Bhandari stated in his police complaint.Acting on the complaint, the district police registered a case under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 120-B (punishment for criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and arrested both accused.Parao police station house officer inspector Munish said, "Both accused were arrested after investigating the facts. Narang Thanda of Nepal and Krishan Bahadur Thapa of Kaulagarh village in Dehradun district have been booked at Parao police station for allegedly duping Nepal residents on the pretext of providing them jobs with 14 Gorkha Regiment of the Indian Army Both the accused were arrested on Monday and presented before a local court that has sent them to six-day police remand.Padam Bhandari of Nepal had filed a complaint with the police on Sunday stating that the accused had duped him, Prakash Sharma and Ashish Magar of Rs 2.5 lakh each on the pretext of providing them jobs with 14 Gorkha Regiment of the Indian Army..