2 held for duping many of crores by promising job in Railways
   Date :16-Jan-2020

2 held for duping many of
 Both the arrested accused along with the seized car at the Police Control Room on Wednesday.
 
Staff Reporter :
 
Bajaria police on Wednesday claimed to have exposed a railway recruitment scam with the arrest of two persons of a gang, including a terminated police constable, for duping a 35-year-old Krishna Nagar resident to the tune of Rs 12.5 lakh by promising in facilitating job in Railways. The accused promised jobs in Railways for posts like Ticket Collector, Travelling Ticket Examiners and ASM without any exam, interview and document verification, saying they have strong connections in Railways and in political circle. They had a rate list and used to charge Rs 15 lakh for the post of Ticket Collector whereas they collect Rs 25 lakh for Assistant Station Manager.
 
Half of the amount was taken in advance. Initial investigation of police revealed that gang members have duped hundreds of youths of money on the pretext of getting them jobs made crores through fraud. The accused floated a chain system through which they were reaching out to a large number of youths aspiring for jobs in Railways. However, no candidate was given any job. DIG Irshad Wali addressing mediapersons at the Police Control Room said that the nabbed accused have been identified Sudheer Dohare and Rajesh Dohare.
 
The arrest was made following a complaint lodged by one of the victims, Gopal Singh Thakur, as he was cheated by the accused Sudheer to the tune of Rs 12.5 lakh for facilitating job at senior level in Railways. The main accused identified as Sudheer Dohare used to work as police constable and was suspended in the year 2009 after he was found involved in cheating victims in the name of facilitating jobs. On Tuesday, Sudheer Dohare and Rajesh Dohare were nabbed carrying a few railway application form envelops in a car carrying forms and documents related to jobs in Railways.
 
They confessed to documents related to jobs in Railways, other documents related to recruitment in railways, printer laptops, and seal stamps at his house in Avantika Colony at Lalghati. Other accused identified as Amit alias Pintu Markande who has been booked for over two dozen crimes was used by the accused to circulate money on interest.
 
Santosh Guha, Santosh Halwai and Manik Maathe are other gang members who are absconding and we are looking for them and they would be nabbed soon, added DIG Wali. In his complaint victim stated that he met Sudheer last year which was facilitated by one of his friends. After the meeting Sudheer lured the victim that he could facilitate job at Rs 14 lakh and Sudheer agreed. On October 8, 2019 he paid Rs 12.5 lakh but accused failed to facilitate job for him and never returned his money. The police have registered a case under sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC against them and started further investigation. It was revealed that they have duped several job-seekers using similar modus operandi.