Conman lands in jail for duping jobless

Khammam: The Hyderabad CCS (Central Crime Station) police nabbed a Khammam-based man who cheated unemployed youth by inducing them by promising jobs in IT companies.

According to the police, the accused was identified as M Ramana Rao, 45, Managing Director of Anu Consultancy in Khammam. He invited applications from several Engineering graduates who aspired for jobs, through social networks and other sources.

He induced them on pretext of facilitating interviews being conducted at various IT companies. As part of his plan to cheat the gullible youth, he also took some of the candidates to IBM and took the help of other two accused Jagdeeswar Reddy and Ramesh Basvani, former IBM employees, who allegedly conducted interviews.

Later, after completion of interviews, he forwarded fake job offer letters to their mail IDs and when the complainant and other victims verified those job offer letters, they found them to be fake. “During the course, Ramana Rao has collected approximately Rs 60 lakh from several unemployed youth and shared the collected amounts with the other accused. He is also involved in other cases in Hyderabad,” said Avinash Mohanty, DCP, Detective Department.

The accused was arrested on Wednesday at CCS, DD and upon interrogation, he confessed to his guilt of committing this offence and was sent to remand.