Till last Tuesday, 24-year-old Kaushalkumar Khushwaha was excited, and grateful to the men who had taken Rs 60,000 from him and promised him a welder’s job in Singapore.They even gave him an Air India ticket for November 3. That’s the day he discovered there was no such job, and that the men had disappeared with his money and his passport.
Navi Mumbai resident Khushwaha is among at least 62 applicants who were cheated. Premkumar alias Mohammed Sharif (45), Sajid Ahmed (45) and Jaafar (35) posed as employment agents and promised them jobs as welders, bulldozer operators, electricians, computer operators, AC mechanics, in Singapore and Dubai. “After collecting around Rs 1 crore, they disappeared with the aspirants’ passports and other documents,” said Assistant Police Inspector S. K. Chavan.
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