Woman held for cheating many with job promises

NEW DELHI: She was among the brightest students in her engineering batch and also worked at an MNC in the capital later. While helping some college students get off-campus placements, Aditi Eldar (28) allegedly hatched a plot to dupe unemployed people on the pretext of getting them lucrative jobs, police said.
Aditi was nabbed from Palam Vihar on Wednesday.During interrogation, she admitted to have duped around 25 students of several lakhs. Her two accomplices are still at large, police added.
The Saharanpur woman had got placed in a reputed company in south Delhi while studying BTech at an engineering college in Dehradun. Two years ago, some students of her college had contacted her to help them get jobs. “Aditi used her contacts and got them placed in lieu of some money. That made her greedy. The placed students spread good word about Aditi, and soon others started contacting her for placements,” said an officer.
She would ask the unemployed students to deposit Rs 5,000 in her account for a telephonic interview. “A fake interview would then be conducted, and Aditi and her accomplices would then inform the students about their selection and call them to the capital,” the officer said. Aditi would either meet the students at a five-star hotel or a café and ask them to pay anything between Rs 40,000 and 50,000 for job confirmation. “After getting the money, Aditi would give fake appointment letters of a particular company and ask the victims to contact the company only after a week. In the meantime, she and her accomplices would go underground,” said a cop.
The students would land at the mentioned company’s office in Jasola, only to realize that they had been duped.
“The manager of the company got suspicious when many people landed with fake appointment letters and informed police about the racket,” the officer said.