THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Police registered a non-bailable case against Saritha Nair on charges of cheating job seekers after accepting a huge sum of money from them promising them to provide permanent jobs at KTDC and Beverage Corporation. The case was taken against the controversial woman after two persons filed a complaint at Neyyattinkara police station, along with the copies of fake appointment letter and documents of the amount of money paid to her. The other accused in the case are the CPI candidate of Kunnatukal panchayat T Rateesh and public activist Shaju Paliyodu.

Rateesh and Shaju collected money from the job aspirants on 2018 December. But they couldn’t provide jobs. With this, the job aspirants approached them demanding their money. Saritha made a cinematic entrance at this time. She called in person every individual who gave money to Rateesh and Shaju. Without revealing her true identity and address, she introduced herself to these aspirants as a high-level official working in the secretariat. Later she revealed her true identity when the aspirants told her that they gave Rs 10 lakh for jobs at Beverage corporation, Saritha demanded an additional Rs 1 lakh. Most of these phone calls were made in last year. On the basis of these phone calls, additional amount of money was sent by the aspirants to Swapna’s accounts. Police have also received the documents of these transactions. Police have received the information that the gang has amassed the money from more than 20 persons. Police are gearing up to make a thorough probe into the case. Saritha Nair is now residing in Tamil Nadu along with her kids and mother.