Gaya, May 16: Acting on complaints, police conducted raids at the offices of two deposit mobilisation companies and a voluntary organisation last evening and nabbed seven persons.

The complainants alleged the deposit mobilisation firms had assured the amounts they invested would get doubled within 11 months, while the voluntary organisation made false promises of jobs.

Gaya city superintendent of police Chandan Kushwaha said: “Acting on the complaint by one Madan Ram of Fatehganj under the jurisdiction of Kotwali police station, raids were conducted at the Falcon Industries India Limited and Vibgyor Gold Limited offices operating out of a rented building on Mir Abu Saleh Road under the same police station area.

Several documents related to public investment were recovered. Ram had complained that every month, he had deposited Rs 400 and Rs 500 at Falcon Industries India Limited and Vibgyor Gold Limited respectively. When Ram went to the company offices and asked for a refund, he was denied payment. Mukesh Kumar, Subodh Kumar and Manish Kumar of Falcon Industries India Limited and Ravi Kumar, Anuj Kumar Mishra and Ravindra Ram of Vibgyor Gold Limited were arrested yesterday and forwarded to jail today.”

In another incident, the office of Lalita Devi Seva Sansthan, a voluntary organisation running near Domuhan in Bodhgaya, was raided yesterday. Six unemployed women — Sheetal Devi, Sarita Sinha, Rekha Sinha, Rajni Kumari, Shyamsundar Devi and Nitu Kumari — had complained to Gaya senior superintendent of police Ganesh Kumar that the firm had taken Rs 5,000 from each of them with promise of jobs of Baalwadi teachers. It promised to pay Rs 1,600 per month to each.

However, the women neither got jobs nor did the NGO pay them. During raids, the organisation chairman, Ashish Kumar Sinha, was nabbed and his aide, Imteyaz Khan, was detained.

“Sinha was forwarded to jail on Thursday and Khan released,” said Kushwaha.