FB pages used to prep fake officers

New Delhi: "We are looking for the candidates for a Pan India project by UGC to carry out inspections in various educational institutes," message fluttered on Facebook pages and in different WhatsApp group; this was the start of the making of fake team of CBI and UGC officers who conducted ten fake raids in the private institutes of Delhi.

The team of Subhash Place police station arrested eight persons including women from North West Delhi. Posing as UGC and CBI officers, they used to commit crime. Police sources told Millennium Post that the accused claimed that they had sent several fake messages regarding job on Facebook pages related to event management or jobs. "They also sent messages in personally to the persons. After some time, few persons all in their early 20s including girls approached them and they were hired," said an investigator. The team began to conduct raids in the first week of March.

He added that they were briefed that they had to conduct raids on the private educational institutes and after obtaining institute details through a local search company they raided the place. "So far we have come to know about ten raids in private institutes in Delhi who provide diploma certificates. They did not raid any government institutes as there was chances to get arrested," said the investigator. The place where they used to raid they make sure that no one made any phone calls.

Sources further claimed that for the first few raids the hired candidates thought that the raid was genuine but after some time they came to know that it was fake and then the gang leader Ajay Goel told them about the profit in the illegal business and convinced them to remain in the team.

Police claimed that the mastermind of the whole racket was Ajay Goel who used to run an event management-cum-manpower supply company. "He used to see news on TV about institutes awarding fake degrees. And, meanwhile, he also saw a movie which gave him an idea to form his own fake team," said the police.