Pilibhit: Three job recruiters here who allegedly duped three youths of Rs 24 lakh each on the pretext securing them employment in Canada were arrested on Saturday.According to police sources, the job agents took the youths to Bengaluru, saying that the flight to Canada would take off from there. On reaching the city, the held the youths hostage and forced them to call home by using a SIM card of Canada, saying they had arrived in Canada.After this, they forced the three victims to ask their parents to pay Rs 24 lakh each to one Taramjot Singh, who turned out to be the mastermind of fake job recruitment network and a resident of Vasundhara colony in Pilibhit city.The three job agents have been booked in a criminal case at Sungarhi police station in Pilibhit city.Producing them before mediapersons here on Saturday, superintendent of police Balendu Bhushan Singh said they were identified as Harpal Singh and Gurupal Singh, both residents of Takiya village under Gajraula police station, Pilibhit, and Karanjeet of Deepnagar village under Tikunia police station in Lakhimpur Kheri district. Taramjot Singh is yet to be nabbed.A joint team of special weapons and tactics (SWAT) wing and surveillance cell of the district police was entrusted with the task of nabbing the cheats, the SP said. Harpal Singh, Gurupal Singh and Karanjeet were arrested at 11.30 am from Assam road crossing on the outskirts of Pilibhit city when they were about to leave for another destination, he added.They confessed that they took Rs 24 lakh each from Simarjeet, a resident of Maujpur village under Shahjahanpur Kotwali police station, Randeep, a resident of Gajraula Khurd village and Gurpreet Singh of Piparia Karam village, both under Gajraula police station, the SP added.The job recruiters took the three youths to Delhi from where they were taken to Mumbai. Finally, they were flown to Bengaluru, where they were held hostage.The SP said two separate FIRs have been lodged — in Shahjahanpur and Pilibhit. In both FIRs, the three cheats have been booked under IPC section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 364 (kidnapping with intension of murder), 392 (robbery), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 342 (wrongful confinement).

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