GENPACT:  Fake Appointment Letter Accused On Run
By Nitin Paul

Four of the five persons accused of forging appointment letters of renowned Call Centre Company Genpact have been granted bail by Sessions and High Courts. The persons who ran a bogus placement agency in New Delhi had issued appointment letters on forged Genpact letter heads bearing the company logo as well as signatures of the managing director G Margwn to many gullible youths seeking employment.

One of the accused Manish - a New Delhi based software engineer - continues to evade arrest even after four months of the incident. The police officials claim that raids have been conducted at his residence where he was never found.

After receiving a complaint from Genpact, the police had arrested two persons of the gang including the woman mastermind Surabhi on September 14, 2006 on the charges of cheating eleven job-seeking youths by issuing them forged Genpact appointment letters promising hefty salaries for the post of Associates and Customer Care executives.

Two other accused had managed to get bail from the High Court. 

On the complaint of the Genpact Vice President Vibhu Narayan, the police have registered a case u/s 419, 468, 471, 465 and 120B against the woman Surabhi alias Sheena Saini of Nanak Pura of Delhi and four others. She was in jail for three months before she was granted bail. The fraud came to light on September 13 when eleven youths having received fake appointment letters from Genpact reached its Gurgaon based office to start lucrative careers in the booming Call Centre industry.

When contacted by the youths, the HR department of Genpact denied  having issued any appointment letters to them and also denied any relationship with Surabhi or her placement agency Dolphin. In his complaint to the police, Genpact vice president Vibhu Narayan had stated that one Gunjan Jain had approached the company along with other youths who were in possession of fake appointment letters.

Surabhi, in her confession to the police, said they did it because she and her husband had sunk into deep debt and so needed to raise cash fast.  And rich call centres proved an irresistible target.