GUWAHATI: City police on Friday arrested one Rajnish Dutta, who allegedly duped 5 younger photographers from town of over Rs 6 lakh with promises of giving them images jobs in the National Geographic mag. Dutta was apprehended from Majuli on Friday after having kept away from arrest since February.
"Latasil Police registered a case against Dutta in February. However, he was absconding. Recently, he was seen on TV during Holi celebrations at Majuli. Immediately, he was tracked down to a resort in the island and nabbed there on Friday," town police resources stated.
Police suspect that Dutta is a part of a global racket and want to seek his custody for additional interrogation.
Describing how Dutta swindled the images fans, Indrajit Das, one of the most 5 youths, told TOI, "Dutta, introducing himself as a photographer from National Geographic magazine, asked us to join the team for some interesting assignments. He took around Rs 1.1 lakh from each of us in the name of a photography training programme to be held in Bhutan and for other arrangements like international driving licence and other documents."
The youths started to suspect that that they had been duped when one in every of them decided to contact National Geographic, seeking main points of their training programme. "National Geographic authorities told us that there was no such assignment and no such hiring had taken place either. We contacted police immediately, but Dutta had left without a trace by then," added Das.
The four different youths who fell sufferer to the rip-off were identified as Priyanku Chaudhury, Aditya Barnwal, Banajyoti Mali and Kulajit Dutta.
According to police resources, Dutta has already confessed to the crime. They stated Dutta has printed that he is a part of a gang of frauds based totally in New Delhi and Mumbai who have global contacts and run such fraudulent rackets. Details of a few global financial institution accounts have additionally surfaced in the preliminary probe.
"They target ambitious youths looking for their dream job and then start luring them with such opportunities. They create fake websites and email ids too to look real for their targets," a police supply stated.
"Latasil Police registered a case against Dutta in February. However, he was absconding. Recently, he was seen on TV during Holi celebrations at Majuli. Immediately, he was tracked down to a resort in the island and nabbed there on Friday," town police resources stated.
Police suspect that Dutta is a part of a global racket and want to seek his custody for additional interrogation.
Describing how Dutta swindled the images fans, Indrajit Das, one of the most 5 youths, told TOI, "Dutta, introducing himself as a photographer from National Geographic magazine, asked us to join the team for some interesting assignments. He took around Rs 1.1 lakh from each of us in the name of a photography training programme to be held in Bhutan and for other arrangements like international driving licence and other documents."
The youths started to suspect that that they had been duped when one in every of them decided to contact National Geographic, seeking main points of their training programme. "National Geographic authorities told us that there was no such assignment and no such hiring had taken place either. We contacted police immediately, but Dutta had left without a trace by then," added Das.
The four different youths who fell sufferer to the rip-off were identified as Priyanku Chaudhury, Aditya Barnwal, Banajyoti Mali and Kulajit Dutta.
According to police resources, Dutta has already confessed to the crime. They stated Dutta has printed that he is a part of a gang of frauds based totally in New Delhi and Mumbai who have global contacts and run such fraudulent rackets. Details of a few global financial institution accounts have additionally surfaced in the preliminary probe.
"They target ambitious youths looking for their dream job and then start luring them with such opportunities. They create fake websites and email ids too to look real for their targets," a police supply stated.
Police arrest fraud who duped youths of 6 lakh for jobs
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