• Notification Date: 05-12-2022
• Notification No: N/A

Another Individual held for I-T dept Job Fraud

10 days ago, a woman called Priyanka Mishra, who was carrying fake interviews for different posts in the income tax (I-T) department, was arrested while sitting in a canteen on the department’s premises in Hazratganj on November 22. 

Another arrest has been made on the first week of December. Lucknow additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP), Central, Rajesh Srivastava said the arrested person has been identified as Suraj Mishra. The name of the arrested person surfaced while scanning call details of the main accused Priyanka Mishra. the officer reported that Suraj Mishra was a contractual employee at Shakti Bhawan and was in constant touch with Priyanka Mishra. Suraj Mishra used to distribute fake appointment letters to job aspirants after Priyanka took their fake interviews posing as a senior I-T officer. 

Job aspirants used to believe her since she used to call them for interview while sitting in the staff cafeteria of I-T building in Hazratganj, a place where general public could not easily enter. As per the report of the ADCP, the security guards as well as other canteen staff treated her as if she was a senior I-T officer.  

As per investigation reports, Priyanka Mishra is a resident of Shahjahanpur district, and several fake appointment letters, fake stamps of IT officials, and other documents were recovered from her possession. She allegedly handed over recruitment letters to over a dozen job aspirants after taking money from them in return for giving them jobs.  

Rajesh Srivastava reported that Priyanka was arrested after some I-T officials informed the police about some suspicious activities going on in the staff cafeteria of the IT office at around 3 pm on November 22. On being interrogated by the I-T officers, she could not give a satisfactory answer about her presence over there. In fact, she tried to escape from there when she was held and handed over to the police.  

Further investigations revealed that she was visiting the I-T office for the past week. During that period, she befriended some of the staff of the cafeteria and posed as if she were an officer in the same department.