Youth duped of Rs1.30L on job promise

Tribune News Service

Ambala, December 4

A youth in Ambala was duped of Rs 1.30 lakh on the pretext of providing him a job of a shift attendant in Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN).

A case has been registered against Ishant Dhiman, a resident of Kurukshetra, in this regard.

In his complaint to the police, Harkesh Kumar, a resident of Ambala, stated that Ishant had claimed to be a permanent employee of the UHBVN. He also claimed that he had good links with seniors and could arrange jobs in the department. The accused had sought Rs 2 lakh for the job of shift attendant, and the deal was struck for Rs 1.30 lakh.

“Since I was looking for a job, I had a discussion with my family and gave Ishant Rs 1.30 lakh in January last year. In July last year, he gave me the appointment letter and asked me to join duty. As I reached division-1 of the UHBVN in Ambala Cantonment to join duty, I came to know that the appointment letter was fake. After my father and brother found Ishant and confronted him, he gave them a cheque and asked them to get it encashed. But the cheque was not encashed by the bank concerned due to wrong signatures,” the complainant stated.

A case has been registered at the Saha police station under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC.