Crooks offer fake ONGC jobs for Rs 10 lakh to engineering graduates

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police is probing a multilevel job racket involving ONGC after many engineering graduates from across the country landed at its Delhi office with job letters, which they later got to know were fake.
During investigation, it emerged that each candidate had given Rs 10 lakh for the job under the ministry quota to the crooks, who contacted them through a placement agency in Hyderabad.The accused even conducted interviews inside Krishi Bhavan.
The incident came to light on Monday, when ONGC informed the police after conducting an internal inquiry into the racket. Company officials told cops that two men from Hyderabad came to their office on March 7, 2018 and showed their appointment letters for the post of graduate engineer trainees at Eastern Offshore Asset, ONGC at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
The officials found that the letters were fake and informed the candidate that their selection was not registered. Later, the vigilance department of ONGC contacted the two aspirants for more details where they were informed that a job consultancy firm in Hyderabad promised them the job.
“We met one of their agent based in Delhi in April 2017 who promised the job under the ministry quota. He told us that his brother-in-law is working with ONGC,” one of the candidate, who holds an MTech degree, told TOI, adding that they sent their documents to the agent and received a mail from ‘ONGC HR department’ through an email from ‘hrd.ministry@ongc.co.in’.
The candidate said he got another mail a few days later confirming his interview for the post of assistant executive engineer. They were both directed to report at ‘Recruitment Cell, ONGC, Krishi Bhavan’ on August 24. There were six other candidates from Hyderabad, the complainant said. Four days later, he got a mail confirming his selection and a pay grade of Rs 24,000-50,500 with a 3% increment per year.
The company’s vigilance inquiry has now found that the signature on the offer letter had some resemblance to the officials from HR department, but the standard format was not been followed. The examination of the email ID also indicated their origin from ONGC domain. “An insider role cannot be ruled out, especially because the landline number used for verification belongs to ministry of rural development in Krishi Bhavan,” company officials said in their report to the cops, adding that a job scam mafia may be operating within the office.
Cops found the consultancy firm had shut down and the phone numbers used by the crooks were not functional.