The accused was arrested by the Crime Branch in his hometown of Rajasthan. (Representative)
New Delhi:
The Delhi Police Criminal Division arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly passing the personal secretary to Union Home Secretary Amit Shah and calling on the labor ministers of Haryana and Rajasthan to find a jobs, officials said Thursday.
The man, Sandeep Choudhary, is a resident of Teh Mundawar in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, they said.
Choudhary did his BA and BEd and was working with the Hero Honda company in Dharuhera, Haryana, but after losing his job amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he made a plan to find a job, said the police.
He was arrested after the Crime Branch registered a case based on a complaint from the Union Home Office, they said.
According to the complaint, the man posing as the Shah’s personal secretary had called the labor ministers of Haryana and Rajasthan to get hired.
With the help of technical surveillance, the accused was then arrested by the Crime Directorate of his hometown of Alwar district in Rajasthan, police said.
During questioning, Chaudhary revealed that he previously worked for the Hero Honda company in Dharuhera, but due to COVID-19 he lost his job and is currently unemployed, a senior police official said.
To get hired in one of the factories in Rajasthan or Haryana, he drew up a plan and decided to call the ministers of the states concerned, posing as the personal secretary to the interior minister of the ‘Union, he said.
To carry out his plan, he first obtained a SIM card issued in his girlfriend’s name. He then posed as the Shah’s personal secretary and called Haryana Labor Minister Anoop Dhanak and Rajasthan Labor Minister Tikaram Julie, the officer added.
The cell phone and SIM card used to call the ministers concerned were recovered, police said.
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