SCAMSTERS INC.

A total of 110 people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the leakage of Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examination paper, police said on Sunday.

While 16 of them were charged with masterminding the racket, the others were said to be candidates who were to take the examinations. Twelve arrests were made in Jaipur and four in Bhopal.

The RRB examination, organised by the Ajmer Recruitment Board for the posts of assistant station master, was scheduled on Sunday. The Special Task Force (STF) unearthed the scandal a few hours before the exam began.

The STF unearthed a similar scam in December and arrested 286 people. One of them was Bedi Ram, a ticket exaAminer.

"However, Bedi Ram soon came out on bail and we were constantly getting information that he was again involved in a similar scam," additional director general of Police Brij Lal told reporters here.

The police also recovered a few copies of the original question paper and a large number of solved answer sheets from Jaipur and Bhopal.

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The detection of crime branch (DCB) unearthed a major scam related to bogus stamp papers, rubber stamps of banks and government,
vehicle registration books and company's letter pads on Thursday. Two persons were arrested in the scam that was being run on a major scale by the residents of city's Mehta Pole.

According to DCB officials, more arrests are likely in the scam that was unearthed after one of the key persons was nabbed on Wednesday. "We had received a tip-off that a person having bogus documents of regional transport office (RTO) will pass from Raopura area on Wednesday. We kept a watch in the area and nabbed the person identified as Bhavin Patel," said Karim Polra, DCB police inspector.

"Patel revealed the names of key conspirators Anil Panat and Shailaja Pail, who used to prepare fake stamp papers, property papers, RC books and rubber stamps with the help of computers and some equipments," Polra added. While Panat has been arrested, Shailaja is absconding.

Police recovered 32 stamp papers worth about Rs 1.94 lakh, 24 rubber stamps of sub-registrar office, 25 RTO rubber stamps, seven notary rubber stamps, 22 stamps of nationalised banks, M S University's blank pay-slips and VMC rubber stamps. The accused used to provide these bogus documents to people for a price. They used to even generate bogus bills and receipts that many may have used in government dealings.

Interestingly, Anil was arrested in a similar case about one and half years back by the Gorwa police. However, he was released on bail as he was accused of small-time scam, said police.

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It was just not their day -- Wednesday saw five con men land in the
police net.

Genius with many powerful fathers Sukas, a PUC drop-out and ace fraud, cheated at least 16 companies and persons over the last two years. At 19, he had already amassed over Rs 57 lakh.

All he did was drop big political names and assure industrialists of mega deals from the state and Union government. Even before the deal process began, Sukas would collect his commission and vanish.

At times, he was the son of Union minister T R Balu and at others, of Karnataka revenue minister Karunakar Reddy. He would variously introduce himself as Rahul, DK, Rohith, Ravikumar and so on. Fluent in English, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu, Sukas even had his parents' blessing for his `business'.

His modus operandi: track tenders put out by the Karnataka government on its website. Contact suppliers and negotiate for a commission to get the tender sanctioned to them. Once the money was transferred to his father's account, he would vanish.

Sukas would also hire luxury cars from travel agencies. When he came across a potential victim, he would offer to sell the car for a throwaway price, collect the advance and disappear. Neither would he return the car. He was adept at avoiding agencies by changing home frequently.

When the police nabbed Sukas, his parents, Chandrashekhar and Mala, went underground, said South-East DCP B N S Reddy. Earlier, Sukas was arrested by the Hulimavu police for forging the land documents of a woman. This time, he confessed to have cheated 16 persons and made a whopping Rs 57 lakh. Sukas was tracked through his mobile calls, the DCP said.

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An unlicensed software company that had been operating out of Bengal’s IT hub for three years without the authorities noticing is being investigated for cheating campus recruits of their security deposits and salaries.

Trainees of INFOGEN Global filed an FIR with Bidhannagar East police station on Tuesday against “chief visionary” Anirban Ghosh and his management team for criminal breach of trust and fraud. The company, which has four offices in Salt Lake, had recruited them as software developers last year for an annual pay package of Rs 84,000 each but hasn’t paid them a rupee so far.

Each of these trainees, either BTech or MCA degree-holders from engineering colleges in Bengal and elsewhere, had to deposit Rs 50,000 each to the company as “refundable security bond” and commit themselves to working there for two years.

Santu Das, one of the duped trainees, said he paid the company Rs 50,000 on March 10 last year (Andhra Bank draft number 722010) but did not get his joining letter until December. “I have been working since December 15 but haven’t received my first salary yet.”

Santu’s colleagues who had joined earlier than him haven’t received anything either.“Everything about the company looked more dubious with each day I spent in the office at Rashmi Building in Sector V. We were first told that our salaries were not being disbursed because projects had dried up. The management next announced that the impact of the downturn was so serious that our company would have to be merged with a firm called D’zire Communication,” recalled Minajur Rehman.

Exit Ghosh, enter Prosenjit Roy.

Roy, the head of D’zire Communication, told the trainees that he would be in charge from then on and would clear their dues soon. When post-dated cheques for Rs 7,000 each were distributed among them on January 21, the recruits thought the crisis was over. All the cheques, drawn on Ramkrishnapur Cooperative Bank in Howrah and dated February 2, bounced.

Some of the trainees filed a general diary at the Sector V police outpost on Friday when they found the senior management and mid-level executives missing from the company’s offices. They registered a second complaint three days later but the police allegedly didn’t act on it.

“We decided to file an FIR on finding our two first-floor offices under lock and key,” said Mintu Nath, sitting on the staircase with his hands on his head.

S.A. Ahmed, the chairman of the Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority, confirmed that INFOGEN Global wasn’t licensed but couldn’t say why no action had been taken against it.

State IT minister Debes Das said the company had approached him for land a year ago but he didn’t entertain the request. “I scanned the list of registered IT companies on my laptop and didn’t find its name. When the company came to me again, I asked for the annual audit report. It didn’t get back to me,”he told.

Das said he heard the company’s name again when his office received enquiries about it in the past few months. “I asked my staff to warn anyone who asked about the company not to join it.”

Ghosh and his wife Debarchana Mitra Ghosh, the “director of people management”, were unavailable for comment. “They are absconding but we will arrest them,” said Sujoy Chanda, the additional superintendent of police.

Source: The Telegraph

"BJP is the mother of corruption. Corruption starts from the home of the state chief minister. The BJP workers follow the path of corruption thereafter," alleged opposition leader in the legislative council V S Ugrappa.

Speaking to reporters here on Friday January 30, he said that the BJP leaders, right from its once national president Bangaru Lakshaman to MLA Sampangi, have been involved with several corruption scams. Because of the Loakyukta raid, Sampangi has been caught, he added.

During the BJP tenure, scams running into Rs 30,000 crore have taken place. Allegation of corruption has been levelled by senior leader Bhairon Singh Shekhawat against Rajastan ex-cheif minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia. Karnataka has witnessed scams right from mining to transfer business, he charged.

Sampangi was caught red-handed while accepting bribe to settle a criminal dispute. Likewise, BJP legislators and ministers have been accepting illegal gratifications for affecting transfers. They are using their clout for corrupt practices instead of protecting the law and order situation in the country, he accused.

"Under the BJP rule, Bangalore has witnessed 25 murders in 22 days and law and order machinery has collapsed in the entire state. The government has been conducting the programme of campaign against terrorism, instead of conducting campaign against its own corrupt practices," he ridiculed. He demanded action against the BJP legislators who visited the Lokayukta office in connection with Sampangi case on Friday and behaving irresponsibly there. The Congress will be keenly watching the steps being taken by the BJP in this case, and will initiate steps if the government fails to handle it properly, he warned.

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An Indian-American known for his mega Bollywood shows in the U.S. has been sentenced to seven-year imprisonment in a $33 million mortgage fraud case.

Vijay K. Taneja, 48, was found guilty by a Virginia Court of defrauding four major U.S. banks — Franklin Bank, First Tennessee Bank, Wells Fargo Bank and EMC Mortgage Co — and also cheating the Indian-American community with phoney home loans.

The U.S. District Judge Claude M Hilton also ordered Mr. Taneja to pay $33 million in restitution to these four financial institutions.

Source: The Hindu(PTI)

Quick on the heels of the Satyam scam that also had repercussions on the functioning of Maytas company being run by the family of the ex-chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ramalinga Raju, the state government has cancelled the contracts awarded by it to Maytas Company, relating to the construction of Shimoga and Gulbarga airports.

This information was given by the state chief minister B S Yeddyurappa during his chat with the press at his home cum office, 'Krishna' here on Wednesday January 28, after the high-level meeting gave its assent for the above step. The step had to be taken as the government had no faith that Maytas Company would be able to complete the contracted work within the allotted time, he explained.

"The responsibility of undertaking the process of re-tendering work has been entrusted to the chief secretary. He will soon convene a meeting of officials and take suitable decisions," he explained.

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