Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Magadi Road police on saturday arrested a dismissed KSRTC driver for cheating over 500 gullible people promising jobs at his department .
The accused has been identified as,Manjunath Billa Nayak,a dismissed KSRTC driver and his associate identified as,Anil.
Senior officer told reporters,Based on a complaint filed by one of the victim,after getting all details about the racket Magadi road police inspector GT Sreenivas swung into action and formed a special team to unearth the big scam.
The inspector deployed a decoy and approached the KSRTC dismissed driver on the pretext of seeking employment as Traffic inspector in KSRTC and when he agreed to get a job our team after getting concrete evidence they caught him at a hotel in Yeshwanthpur where he had come to meet.
During investigation the accused confessed the crime and based on his statement the team arrested his associate who was a introducer and was working for commission basis.The team recovered fake appointment letters forged in the name of previous additional Chief Secretary.
A detailed investigation by the team it has revealed that the accused Manjunath Billa Nayak, was dismissed from his job as KSRTC driver for his irresponsible behaviour hailed from Hagaribommanahalli .
He would target people from Ballari,Gadag, Chitradurga and Davanagere.Probe so far revealed that he had used over 100 SIMs to cheat over 500 people for the tune of Rs.15 crores .
The money he would ask the victims to transfer to the account of his associate identified as Anil .
He would give commission to Anil to use his account for the transactions,the police said .
The police are now trying to find out the trail of money he had invested.There are more people who had taken money from Manjunath promising jobs,a police officer, part of the investigation, said .
Investigations are on to identify the other accused who are part of this racket he added.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Nanjundegowda,PI,GT Sreenivas,and his whole staff as,PSI,Ms.Sumangala S,Probationary PSI,Yogesh Kumar,ASIs,as,Ravikumar,Jaiprakash SR,and crime staff as,Naveen Kumar,Prakash,Muniraju LN,and other staff has been appreciated for the meticulous investigation done by them and acted swiftly in nabbing the duo fraudsters and unearthing the big scam a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.
