How Ex-Maths teacher Sanaullah cheated 42 people of fake SCR joining letters, arrested

Hyderabad: The commissioner's task force, west zone team, Hyderabad apprehended four persons on 25 October for cheating unemployed youth under the guise of providing jobs. They promised jobs in the Income Tax department, South Central Railway, and the National Soil Conservation and Salinisation Board.

The main accused, Mohd. Sanaullah (known as Khan Sir, Chaitanya, Aryan, Shaheed Khan, and Vikram), is from Hyderabad. Sanaullah met Palem Ashok Kumar Reddy through a mutual friend. The two then devised a scheme to cheat unemployed youth by delivering false job appointment letters from Central government departments. They recruited others—Akashpur Veera Chaitanya of West Godavari, Godi Veera Arjun Rao, also known as Vikrant, of Vijayawada, Kolkondi Raghuveer of Katedan, Hyderabad, and Thirumala Anil Kumar of Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad—to work as assistants at their office.

Fourteen other members of the gang are absconding.

Thirty fake joining letters for the Income Tax department, 12 fake joining letters for Hyderabad Customs commissionerate, fake identity cards, gold (288.870 grams), and cash of Rs. 15.30 lakhs were seized form the gang.

History of previous crime

In 2007, Mohd. Sanaullah worked as a Math teacher. He applied for Central/state government teacher positions but was unsuccessful. In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, he devised a scheme to create phony travel passes for emergency travelers by forging the Panjagutta police station stamps. The Panjagutta police detained him in a forgery case.

Cases have also been registered against other accused, Akashpur Veera Chaitanya, Palem Ashok Kumar Reddy, and Thirumala Anil Kumar, in connection with various crimes.

How did the gang operate?

They used different modus operandi for different scams.

I-T job fraud

Mohd. Sanaullah, Palem Ashok Kumar Reddy, and others hired an office on the second floor of the UNI Building in Masab Tank for a monthly rent of Rs. 1.10 lakh and named it Income Tax Services. They got 40 computers and set up cabins in the same pattern as the Central Income Tax offices. They then started luring innocent youth from the districts of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu through agents.

They used to collect Rs. 3 to 4 lakhs from each candidate and issue a "joining letter" in the name of the "Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Central Revenues Building, I.P. Estate, New Delhi-110002." It was signed by Shri Manoj Kumar, ADG(HRD)- CMD-1, Income Tax Department, New Delhi.

The candidate would be trained in the same building for six months and provided a data entry operator job for a stipend of Rs. 18,000. About 79 candidates were trained in this building.

For National Soil Conservation & Salinisation Board

The gang established an online website called National Soil Conservation and Salinization (https://nscsb.org/) and issued a notification online for the recruitment of "Agriculture Assistants" and collected registration fee of Rs. 500 from each candidate.

They posted the results online and declared all 1,420 candidates selected for an interview at NSCSB Regional Training Centre, Plot no 9, IT Park, Mangalgiri, Vijayawada. The gang was arrested while the notification process was in progress.

For South Central Railway

The gang sent "joining letters" for the position of Group-C in South Central Railway.