Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Nov 29: A man who made many believe that he is an officer of the central survey department, has succeeded in fleecing many by promising to help them to bag an employment. He also married four girls but the police have finally caught up with him.
The person in question, identified as Raghavendra (39), has been arrested by the central crime branch police. They have also taken into possession a car with a board declaring it to be belonging to a government official, apart from his fake identity card.
Raghavendra
The accused projected himself to be a senior central government official. By posing as a senior survey department official of the central government, he promised government employment to many, collected money from them and cheated them. He was moving around with a fake central government board attached to his car. It is estimated that he would not have collected crores of rupees from unemployed youngsters. By using the money so earned, he has bought a hotel in Tumakuru and a flat in Kengeri here. He also has bought gold ornaments worth lacs of rupees. The police have seized the fake identity card, mobile phone, car, tab, laptop, cheque book, bond paper, and property documents in his name. They are continuing with their investigation.
Raghavendra has been in the city for the last five to six years. He had a fake identity card which declared him to be the deputy commissioner in the department of survey, central government. He also had fitted a placard to his car, declaring his car to be belonging to the central government. With the help of these things, he earned the trust of unemployed people and promised them jobs. For a government job, he used to demand Rs 20 lac with ten lac rupees in advance. He also collected a cheque for the balance of ten lac rupees. He had received money from many in this way, and as he cheated a number of people by collecting money in this fashion, the police arrested him, based on several complaints received against him,.
He used to get the signatures of the people on bond paper and collect signed blank cheques. If the defrauded people sought their money back, he used to threaten them to sue them with the help of bond paper, it is learnt. Raghavendra has four wives who hail from Bengaluru, Bagalakote, Kundapur and Haveri.
Ten years ago, he used undertake survey work privately in Kundapur, but planned to earn quick bucks by posing as a government official.