Trained pilot and NIFT dropout among those arrested for duping jobseekers off crores of rupees by promising a better life abroad
Trained pilot and NIFT dropout among those arrested for duping jobseekers off crores of rupees by promising a better life abroad
It took 27 FIRs and one suicide to unearth the immigration racket that started 10 years ago in south Delhi and was masterminded by a trained commercial pilot and a National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) dropout.
The Delhi police's special cell recently arrested three persons under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for allegedly running an immigration racket by assuring jobs in a foreign land and thereby cheating people off around Rs three crore.
The accused Vipin Sharma, 34, along with his brother Sachin Sharma, 30, residents of Defence Colony were held with their 26-year-old associate Aaman Alam, a resident of Muzzafarnagar in UP.
According to the police, the accused Vipin Sharma is a history-sheeter. He is a graduate from Delhi University and is a trained commercial pilot from Ludhiana Aviation Club and Aman Alam a dropout from NIFT, said the police.
"Vipin worked as a real estate agent, after completing his college, in Defence Colony area of south Delhi in 1998. He met Rubby, a resident of Patiala, now settled in the US and started the fake immigration business with him. They would promise jobs to eager candidates or would assure them of a better life in a foreign country. They would take thousands of rupees and would get the deal done by using forged documents.u00a0u00a0 The candidate, if successful in reaching foreign shores, would after sometime get deported once being caught for his fake documents. And that's when they would realise their folly," said a police officer.
"The duo would send their customers to South America and other Latin American countries. Thereafter, Vipin and his associates successfully managed to send the clients illegally to the US through their network via Jamaica and Havana," added the officer.
The first FIR lodged against Vipin was in the year 2000 by Shyamlal, resident of Punjab who was deported from Jamaica. And then one after another, several FIRs have been lodged against Vipin and his associates with charges of cheating.
"In a period of 10 years, 27 FIRs have been lodged been against Vipin, from Punjab and Haryana. It is suspected that he may have cheated people off three crore rupees so far," stated the officer.
In 2008, Vipin's name was again highlighted when one of his victims Mangat Singh Gill, a resident of Karnal, committed suicide.
"As per the prosecution, Mangat Singh was a sub-agent of Vipin Sharma, who had collected huge sums from several aspirants for sending them abroad, only to dupe them and disappear. The candidates had given the payments to Mangat Singh. Under tremendous social and legal pressure, Mangat committed suicide. However, he left a note revealing the identity of the real culprits. A case was registered in Karnal City to this effect," said the police officer.
Again in 2009, Vipin cheated a person from Chanakyapuri area using forged documents, offering a job in Germany.
"Aaman Alam passed class 12 in the year 2002 and then he took admission in NIFT, but he left the course and joined hands with Vipin. Vipin and his associates had their offices in various parts of Delhi and Punjab. We have recovered more than Rs 7 lakh and fake visas of different people and a swift car from Vipin Sharma," the officer concluded.
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