ARRESTED IN AHMEDABAD
Lucknow: A 37-year-old Lucknow man, who collected around Rs 5 crore from several people on the promise of securing them govt jobs, staged his own kidnapping to evade mounting pressure from those demanding their money back, police said. Police said he then called Dial 112 and falsely claimed that two vehicles were following him.
Dixit took money from several aspirants by promising appointments in govt departments and issuing forged appointment letters, according to police. Madiaon SHO Shivanand Mishra said the police tracked a suspicious mobile number with the help of the North Zone surveillance team. The accused, Satyaratna Dixit, a resident of Madiaon, was traced to a hotel in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and arrested by a joint team of Madiyaon police and the North Zone surveillance unit. When he failed to arrange jobs or return the money, he gave a false kidnapping alert, claiming that two SUVs were chasing him. Investigators found that Dixit was staying at in a hotel in Ahmedabad. After checking hotel records, the police team reached his room in the presence of hotel staff and recovered him. He was questioned and subsequently brought to Lucknow. As people began contacting him to demand refunds, Dixit feared that his fraud would be exposed.
Madiyaon police registered a case under Section 140(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and launched an investigation.