AHMEDABAD: The city crime branch in Ahmedabad on Monday arrested three persons, including a retired army man and a woman, for allegedly duping 81 aspirants from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat of Rs 3.25 crore on the pretext of getting them government jobs, said officers on Tuesday.
The accused Harish Prajapati, 45, an ex-army man who ran a coaching centre named Swami Vivekanand Talim Kendra in Dahegam, his friend Pooja Thakor, 25, and Ravi Ravat, 25, from Ajmer in Rajasthan who also ran a coaching centre, were allegedly cheating candidates by promising them jobs in the police, military, revenue department and civic body since 2020.