Airport job racket cracked, 5 held

Chennai: The suburban police have arrested five persons in connection with an airport job racket. The case was brought to the notice of suburban police commissioner S R Jangid on March 30.
About 25 youth had filed a complaint alleging that they had been assured of Central government jobs with the Airports Authority of India. In a complaint filed by Ezhumalai, the representative of the victims, he said that he was working with the municipal corporation in the area for the last 20 years and had got in touch with Manibharati alias KG Laxmiswami through a common friend who told him that the latter had helped him get a government job for his wife and could help his boys also.
He said that he knew one Gautam Singh who worked with the AAI in a senior post. He could help them get jobs for his sons and nephews, of course for a consideration. He wanted the boys to pay Rs 1,50,000 each plus a total Rs 1 lakh commission for securing jobs for them. “About 25 of them came forward for the job and coughed up close to Rs 30 lakh. I had had many interactions with Manibharati who also went to the extent of ‘alloting’ them jobs at the airport. Some were given trolly pushing duties while others were assigned computer operations, etc.”
Manibharati also furnished purportedly written by the general manager of AAI on the AAI letterhead congratulating these men on their jobs and called them for a medical examination. On reaching Chennai, they realised it was fake and also that there was no Gautam Singh at the AAI.
01/05/09 ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Airports May 2009