BENGALURU: A woman, who posed as a CBI officer, and her husband have allegedly duped two youths of Rs 13.2 lakh by promising police constable jobs. The accused had also created fake appointment orders in the name of Mysuru City police commissioner Chandragupta.
DJ Halli police have registered a case of cheating against the two based on a complaint filed by Naveen Kumar MS, 25, from Shampura Main Road in KG Halli.
Kumar alleged that he and his cousin Vijay Kumar paid Rs 13.4 lakh to Keerthana and her husband Suneel Kumar between October 2020 and January 2022 after they promised them jobs with Mysuru city police department.
Naveen, a BCom graduate, works as an accountant with a private firm in Kammanahalli. He came to know about the suspects through his mother Meenakshi’s friend. The couple learned that Kumar had applied for government jobs. She met him in police uniform on October 16, 2020, and introduced herself as a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer. His mother had requested her to arrange a job for her nephew Vijay Kumar also.
Keerthana had demanded Rs 3 lakh each. She arranged a medical check-up for them at a clinic near Yelahanka and took money from them. Later, the suspects demanded more money and assured Naveen that she would arrange a head constable’s job instead of a police constable. Kumar and his mother agreed to pay them more money. Meanwhile, they demanded additional amount to skip physical examinations for their recruitment.
Kumar and Vijay Kumar have paid Rs 13.4 lakh so far. The couple gave Naveen a fake appointment order in which he was told to report for the head constable’s job in Krishnarajapuram police station in Mysuru and the order copy was issued in the name of the police commissioner. Believing it was genuine, Kumar went to Mysuru in July 2021 and came to know that it was a fake letter.
