Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 30: Police today busted a racket involved in issuing fake appointment orders and arrested two racketeers including kingpin.
Giving details, police spokesman said that during routine checking at Satwari, a police party led by SHO Inspector Abid Raffiqui intercepted a Santro car bearing registration number JK-3C-2788 and subjected it to thorough checking.
In the meantime, both the occupants of the vehicle tried to flee after tearing some papers that were lying on the dashboard. However, their attempt was foiled by the police and they were subjected to questioning during which they disclosed their identity as Abdul Majeed Zarger, son of Ghulam Nabi Zarger and Waseem Raja Zarger, son of Ghulam Nabi Zarger, both the residents of Kanihamma, Budgam.
During sustained interrogation, they confessed that they were running a fake appointment orders issuing racket and preparing fake orders to dupe the helpless job seekers by taking huge sums of money from them in advance on the pretext of providing them jobs in the various departments of the State Government.
During the course of further investigation, it came to fore that Abdul Majeed is a dismissed Government employee, who served as Senior Assistant in ARI and Trainings Department in the Civil Secretariat and has remained involved in the vehicle theft cases.
The torn out fake appointment and other orders of scores of persons appointed them temporarily in the Health and Medical Education, Forest, Public Health Engineering and Rural Development Departments have been seized along with other incriminating material.
The spokesman said that accused used to take the people to Secretariat and his Government quarter at BC Road so as to assure them that he has links in the Secretariat. The racket kingpin Abdul Majeed had remained involved in vehicle theft cases in the Valley and was dismissed on this account in the year 2005.
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