Srinagar: Police in Handwara on Monday said to have busted a job-scam and arrested six persons from multiple places in north and central Kashmir.
“In a major breakthrough, Handwara police have dismantled a cheaters’ gang orchestrating a honey-trap scheme, preying on unsuspecting individuals across north and central Kashmir,” reads a police statement, news agency Kashmir Scroll reported.
“The accused operating in areas such as Baramulla, Bandipora, Handwara, Ganderbal, and Srinagar, exploited innocent people by deceitfully promising government jobs, arranging fraudulent marriages, and offering fake investment schemes,” reads the statement.
It said the cheaters would pose as doctors, engineers, and government employees seeking marriage, and would manipulate and extort money from their victims through various means, police said.
“Their fraudulent activities included promising government jobs, orchestrating sham marriage proposals, and deceptive inverter scheme,” police said.
“In the latter case, the accused masquerading as engineers from the Power Development Department, duped individuals into paying an advance of Rs 4200 Rupees for inverters purportedly provided by the department,” reads the statement.
