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5 held for cheating youths on pretext of giving railway jobs

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Victims offered ticket checkers' job for Rs.25,000 each

Accused would extract Rs.3.5 lakh from each of victims through same modus operandi
Rs.1.82 lakh, fake call letters, fake mark-sheets, fake online registration certificates recovered

NEW DELHI: Five persons who allegedly cheated unemployed young men on the pretext of getting them jobs with the Railways have been arrested in Central Delhi.

Ashok Kumar and Bhupender, both residents of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, lodged a complaint with the Kamla Market police station alleging that they had been cheated by a gang. The victims were contacted by one Pavitra Kumar (21), who offered to get them employed as ticket checkers for Rs.25,000 each.

The victims paid the amount and handed over their photographs to the person near the New Delhi railway station. A few days later, Pavitra Kumar introduced them to Jai Karan (52) and Rambir Singh (56), who claimed to be Railway officials. The victims were shown online registration certificate of the Railway Recruitment Board to convince them that they had already qualified the examination, and made to pay another Rs.80,000 each.

The victims were then asked to appear for interview at Baroda House on May 30 for final selection. However, the interview was not held and the accused also vanished from the scene.

Acting on the complaint, the police mounted surveillance on the suspects and arrested Pavitra Kumar at the New Delhi railway station. At his instance, Rambir, Jai Karan, Anshuman Dubey (34) and Ved Prakash (63) were also arrested.

“The accused would extract Rs.3.5 lakh from each of their victims through the same modus operandi. They would also issue fake appointment letters to trap them. We have seized Rs.1.82 lakh in cash, fake call letters for medical check-up, fake mark-sheets and forged online registration certificates of the Railway Recruitment Board,” said a police officer.

According to the police, Rambir runs a placement agency at Saharanpur in U.P. He has earlier been involved in two auto-lifting cases and one case of possessing counterfeit currency.

“Jai Karan arranged fake documents from Lucknow and delivered them to the victims in the Capital through Rambir. Accused Ved Prakash, a teacher, was roped in the racket by Rambir. Anshuman, who works in a local newspaper in Lucknow, used to provide the fake documents to Jai Karan,” the police officer said.

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